"I'm so angry I made a sign"

Occupy Wall Street continues...
I know much less about it than I wish I did, but I do think its important to keep questioning personal motives, to keep double checking for our own hypocrisy, even as we call others out on theirs. The article below raises the question of where the bottom 5% are, while perhaps the upper half of the 99% protest. Maybe it should be the protest of the very poorest as much as, if not more than, it is the protest of the poorer-than-the-very-richest.
Read it. (Especially if you're a Tupac fan, she cranks the lyrics!)

"Rap and Wall Street" by Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro
http://thefeministwire.com/2011/10/rap-wall-street/#.TqeoO7Xrwjs.facebook

motivation

NO MORE PROCRASTINATION FOR ME.

Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit | Video on TED.com

oh HOLLA.

Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit | Video on TED.com

Jae Rhim Lee, proposing "unorthodox relationships between the mind/body/self and the built and natural environment." Heeheee.

http://zonezerozerostudio.com/

on beauty.

this dude is great.

http://www.wimp.com/feynmanbeauty/

but we've all gotta be aware that we're each only one person, with only one point of view. and the way we experience the world is our way, no better and no worse than anyone else's. Only WE should decide to change it or expand it, or examine it.

The principle of charity is a philosophical tool where one approaches a text only with the aim to read the text as it was intended to be read-not with hostility, or preconception, but charity. So easy to forget...so flippin helpful to remember.