this is really happening

Yes Yes! Hey Hey! It's time to ratify!

monica way — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:29:33 +0000

100.000 people march for climate change in Copenhagen. December 12, 2009.

where are these two goin'?

monica way — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:11:00 +0000

Is that a bear in a Russian taxi?

girl scout spotting

monica way — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:25:13 +0000

$4. The simple cost of heaven.

Kith and kin, Samoas are on the scene and Tagalongs are coming down the mountain. I bought my boxes this morning as the sun was still tucked behind the hills like a thin mint. Holy Girl Scout posse on Lakeshore Avenue in front of Peet's Coffee.

Mary Wollstonecraft said in 1797

monica way — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:18:47 +0000

"Vigorous minds are with difficulty restrained within the trammels of authority; a spirit of enterprise, a passion for experiment, a liberal curiosity, urges them to quit the beaten paths, to explore untried ways, to burst the fetters of prescription, and to acquire wisdom by an individual experience."

Thanks to A.K. for introducing me to this quote.

and then there was this

monica way — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:17:52 +0000

lego bits

monica way — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:38:15 +0000

Proof that yet again, we see what we want to see. There's more.

i knew it! obama is a lefty!

monica way — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:42:17 +0000

look! frozen yogurt AND ice cream sold in one location!

monica way — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:43:58 +0000

Photo credit: The infamous, George Chan

bird people

monica way — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:22:32 +0000

I first encountered Erich Fromm in International Relations 202 nearly ten years ago. He's one of about thirty or so authors I read as a sophomore whose name I can actually remember and whose wisdom has informed many of my political, historical, and philosophical opinions.

If Erich Fromm is right; if "creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties," then these 'fellas are our gift to creativity. For anyone struggling through The Artist's Way, perhaps it's time to go get a wingsuit:

go laura!

monica way — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:01:52 +0000

Shake up that boy's club!

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