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Apr 16

Don’t Mourn For Boston

Tonight, when you pray or cry or shake your head at how such evil can persist in a world that so desperately needs hope and humanity, don’t remember Boston.

Remember Boston…and Syria…and Afghanistan…and Iraq…and Iran…and Haiti…and Nigeria…and Darfur…and Chile…and Kenya…and Ethiopia…and Palestine…and Detroit…and Chicago…and Cuba…and Mexico…and Yemen…and Egypt…and Rwanda…and Uganda…

Don’t remember the friends and families of the loved ones lost or injured in the Boston Marathon.

Remember the friends and families of the loved ones lost or injured in the Boston Marathon…and 9/11…and Aurora…and the Mexican border…and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…and the starved North Koreans…and the children Kony kidnapped…and the women and gays stoned to death every day…and the lost civilians in Afghanistan…and Columbine…and Virginia Tech…and the Madrid bombings…and 7/7…and the 1996 Centennial Olympic bombings…and the slained or assassinated…and those that succumbed to genocide under Hitler, Milosevic, Mussolini, Hussein, Assad, and Gaddafi…and those buried under rubble in Haiti, Iran, and China…and those suffering from AIDS and cancer and malnutrition…

Don’t mourn for 8-year-old Martin William Richard.

Mourn for 8-year-old Martin William Richard…and 15-year-old Anne Frank…and 26-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan…and 4-year-old Lloyd Morgan, Jr…and 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green…and the kids at Columbine…and the students of Virginia Tech…and 16-year-old Abdulrahaman al-Awlaki…and the girls who are circumcised with sharpened stones…and the child slaves who were beaten to death…and the children of Darfur, Berlin, and Beijing…

Don’t mourn for Boston tonight.

Mourn for Boston tonight…and mourn for the world.

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boston+marathon, so it goes,

Apr 16
madenottaken: Spotted in Davis Square today.

madenottaken:

Spotted in Davis Square today.

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Apr 16

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Apr 16
zombiesneverdieforever: So fucking ready for the new season tonight.

zombiesneverdieforever:

So fucking ready for the new season tonight.

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Apr 16
fuks: best thing I’ve seen in a while

fuks:

best thing I’ve seen in a while

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Apr 16

You’re right. Guns don’t kill people. But it’s a hell of a lot easier if you’ve got one. Let’s face it: guns don’t kill people; bullets kill people. Saying ‘Guns don’t kill people, People kill people’ is like saying ‘People don’t take pictures, Cameras take pictures.’ What I’m suggesting is that we finally get rid of the camera that helps the photographer take the widest shot.

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From an article I wrote six years ago during the aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre.  I forgot I wrote those words, and now looking back, it feels like I’m reading a response to the Aurora or Newtown massacres.  It sends shivers up my spine, and it makes me rather nauseous to think that nothing has changed.

So it goes.

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virginia+tech+massacre, virginia tech, hokies, gun control, gun violence, guns don't kill people, the nra, wayne lapierre, second amendment, right to bear arms,

Apr 16

timefortoday:

“We are the Hokies. We will prevail. We are Virginia Tech.” 

— NIkki Giovanni

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Apr 16
pumpkin-patch90: We Are Virginia Tech We are Virginia Tech. We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech. We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again. We are Virginia Tech. We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did nothing to deserve it, but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, neither do the invisible children walking the night away to avoid being captured by the rogue army, neither does the baby elephant watching his community being devastated for ivory, neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water, neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy. We are Virginia Tech. The Hokie Nation embraces our own and reaches out with open heart and hands to those who offer their hearts and minds. We are strong, and brave, and innocent, and unafraid. We are better than we think we are and not quite what we want to be. We are alive to the imaginations and the possibilities. We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears and through all our sadness. We are the Hokies. We will prevail.We will prevail.We will prevail. We are Virginia Tech. -Nikki Giovanni

pumpkin-patch90:

We Are Virginia Tech

We are Virginia Tech.

We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning.

We are Virginia Tech.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We are Virginia Tech.

We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did nothing to deserve it, but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, neither do the invisible children walking the night away to avoid being captured by the rogue army, neither does the baby elephant watching his community being devastated for ivory, neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water, neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy.

We are Virginia Tech.

The Hokie Nation embraces our own and reaches out with open heart and hands to those who offer their hearts and minds. We are strong, and brave, and innocent, and unafraid. We are better than we think we are and not quite what we want to be. We are alive to the imaginations and the possibilities. We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears and through all our sadness.

We are the Hokies.

We will prevail.We will prevail.We will prevail.

We are Virginia Tech.

-Nikki Giovanni

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Apr 16
carnegriffiths: Keeping things simple ….

carnegriffiths:

Keeping things simple ….

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Apr 16
pedrolourenco: a spanish kid once dreamed that he and his group of friends were out in the streets dressed up like death, killing people, till one day he was betrayed and beheaded by his group. yikes!this is part of elmonstruodecoloresnotieneboca collection of dreams in color. + elmonstruodecoloresnotieneboca

pedrolourenco:

a spanish kid once dreamed that he and his group of friends were out in the streets dressed up like death, killing people, till one day he was betrayed and beheaded by his group. yikes!

this is part of elmonstruodecoloresnotieneboca collection of dreams in color.


+ elmonstruodecoloresnotieneboca

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Apr 16

z-x-y:

GS Caltex Pavilion for the 2012 Korea Expo / Atelier Brückner

The structure, commissioned by Korean oil company GS Caltex, bears programmed blades as the main feature that mimic various weather/natural conditions, such as rain, waves, fire, lightning and wind. The blades light up by touch to represent each of the elements.

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Apr 13
archann: A new quick painting I did today titled ”Two Folds ” . Thank you! Video Timelapse of the painting can be viewed here www.archann.net

archann:

A new quick painting I did today titled ”Two Folds ” . Thank you!

Video Timelapse of the painting can be viewed here

www.archann.net

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Apr 12

CSS, “Music is My Hot, Hot Sex” (live in Paris, 2007)

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css, cansei der sexy, lovefoxxx, music is my hot hot sex, maryslovechild,

Apr 12

missjuliamazing:

clype:

How Animals Eat Their Food

this is my fav thing omg.

OMG dying

(Source: unabating)

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Apr 12
m0m0cat: i am crying

m0m0cat:

i am crying

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