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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.

Aside from the evidence of our own senses, almost everything we know about the past or the news of today comes from bits of ink on paper or colored pixels on a screen, and fortunately over the last decade or two the growth of the Internet has vastly widened the range of information available to us in that latter category. Even if the overwhelming majority of the unorthodox claims provided by such non-traditional web-based sources is incorrect, at least there now exists the possibility of extracting vital nuggets of truth from vast mountains of falsehood. Certainly the events of the past dozen years have forced me to completely recalibrate my own reality-detection apparatus.

Our American Pravda, Ron Unz

Great essay on what the media has missed in the past, and could be missing today.

parislemon:

Amazon’s new downtown Seattle offices will be biospheres. Awesome. Bio-Dome awesome.

americasgreatoutdoors:

A beautiful sunrise Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park last October. Complete with a #rainbow over the canyon.

mentalflossr:

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Sometimes we must turn to other languages to find le mot juste. Here are a whole bunch of foreign words with no direct English equivalent.

1. Kummerspeck (German)
Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.

For now on, please refer to me by my code name: “Grief bacon.”

Yankees + Man City + New York? 

Hard to imagine a less likable combination.

americasgreatoutdoors:

The Moon rising over the valley in Yosemite National Park.

Photo: Manish Mamtani 

charliewarzel:

A look back to when Yahoo used to publish a physical magazine. It’s amazing. 

charliewarzel:

A look back to when Yahoo used to publish a physical magazine. It’s amazing. 

A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges — the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws. But commonly held myths about domestic adoption would be dispelled. The super-secret affairs of old are largely gone; rather, birth mothers typically choose the family, and adoptive parents share letters and pictures. The baby’s future does not disappear into a black hole.

Adoption should be an empowering option for young women in crisis, knowing that the people around them — family, friends, church — will respect their choice. On this Mother’s Day, I’ll be celebrating the courage of the birth mother who gave our daughter the gift of life — and gave my husband and me the greatest joy of our marriage.