The Opposite of Loneliness →

I cried and felt chills spread throughout my body multiple times while reading this piece. It was written by a remarkable young woman who very recently met a tragic fate, hence all of the emotions I’m currently feeling. Please take a moment to read her article and really let her message sink in. You won’t regret it.

Marina Keegan, I have never met you and now I lament the fact that I never will. The world has indeed lost a beacon of bright light in your passing. From your writing, I can tell that you were amazing, incredible, and wise beyond your years. May you rest in eternal peace and be happy knowing that you touched the heart, mind, and soul of at least this one person. To you, I’m a stranger, but I’m also a peer who fully understood what you meant in your piece. I’ve heard words like yours before but I think your story—your tragedy—really hit it home for me. Sad, but what can I say? Because of you, I will always remember that it’s never too late to start over, to do, to create…to live.

philoftherosary:

Join Kayumanggi for our 2nd Pilipino Cultural Night:
“WAKE UP, STAND TALL”

Come witness over 50 performers, 13 traditional dances from all over the Philippines, PASUpella, and Common Origins in the final cultural show of the year.

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Meet Milagros, but you can call her Mimi, for short. Go ahead. Just ask her. She’ll tell you.

Mimi is about to turn 18 and is stuck between two worlds. Uneasy with her family’s values, she has no interest in her Filipino roots and sees nothing wrong in her misplaced sense of identity. To compound matters, she keeps shuffling aside her American best friend, Kellie, who is curious about Mimi’s home life, filled with traditional art and cooking aromas.

Following a series of events, everything eventually boils over and she is forced to confront her heritage. Along the way she wakes up to discover who she is, understand where she came from, and learn how to stand tall and celebrate herself. 

This is the story. And while the outcome of all of this is not hard to anticipate, the setting is new, the characters are lovable, and the plot provides plenty of excuses for seeing a spectacular blend of drama, humor, romance, music and DANCE. 
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$3 presale, $5 at the door. 

Approach any of the Kayumanggi co-chairs, interns or dancers for tickets.

SEE YOU THERE!

The New Yorker: Is Stanford Too Close to Silicon Valley? →

This article definitely gave me some food for thought…

thedaintysquid:

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I’m not normally one for cats, but look at this cute widdle fellaaa d’awww kittyyy!

yssadalawa:

I CAN’T STAND THESE FEELINGS

ESPECIALLY THE MIDDLE GIF

IT’S MY FAVORITE

OH MY GOD I’M GOING INSANE

LOL YSSA, your tags!!! THE. BEST.

I am also a huge fan of this pairing. asdfjkl;;;;; I wanna watch The Avengers again!

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Constantly looking down at my feet while I walk and failing to appreciate the places through which I pass.

Anonymous asked: are you planning to go see 'the beatles: the lost concert' film?

I didn’t know about this film until you asked, Anonymous, but now that I’ve looked it up, I do want to go see it! Unfortunately, it appears that it’s only being released in the U.S. and I’ll still be in China on those dates. Sad. Maybe when the DVD comes out then. Haha.

"Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley’s attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some interest in the eyes of his friend. Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty: he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness. Of this she was perfectly unaware: to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with."

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (via vanished)

One of those books that is at once new and familiar every time I read it. The copy I own is now so worn and creased because my sister and I love to return to it and nestle in its pages. I cherish this book because I always come away with something different after reading it. The magic of Pride and Prejudice, in my opinion anyway, lies in its ability to make me notice a scene, emotion, place, or character that I didn’t notice during previous frolics through that world—as well as its ability to remind me of a part that I do know and love and yet still make me feel the way I felt the first time I came across it.

lovelisee:

zeeelyna:

YAS.

lmao.

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20 Great Things About Dating a Writer →

yeahwriters:

I joked around on my tumblr that I would copy & paste this on my eHarmony profile page when I’m 40 and still foreveralone. Haha, just kidding. But I mean, if any yeah writers need to outline why they are prime dating material, here are some reasons! x

These are funny. Click the link above!

super kilig for so many reasons :D

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bookspaperscissors:

Dance, Fletcher Sibthorp

Dancing is a language,
Each piece a poem.
The stage is the page
Across which the ink that is our movement
flows and settles, settles and flows.
Our bodies are the pens,
And the music the hand that guides
Heartsongs and soulstories
To be unleashed.

I’m not fluent yet,
But I’m working on it.

Monica

prettyfoods:

Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie n’ Oreo Fudge Brownie Bar (via Kevin & Amanda)

fiendin’