Author: Daniela

  • Sunday Prayer

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    Krishna Awakes Krishna awake, for the day has dawned: large, deep and lotus-like, your eyes are as in the love-shaped lake a pair of swans even a million Kamadevas cannot vie with the bewitching beauty of your face; the sun rises in the east, a crimson ball the night is going and the moonlight pales…

  • Yes, Yes, Yes!

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    Reposted from The Dish (without the additional commentary): Bert Thelen, a Jesuit priest who is almost 80 years old, recently renounced his vows, leaving the order and ordained ministry. In a remarkable letter to colleagues and friends, he explained his decision, citing a desire “to be my best self as a disciple of Jesus, to proclaim boldly…

  • Celebrating the 15 Percent

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    In response to the backlash generated by this Cheerios commercial, a beautiful Tumblr blog voices support for interracial families and brings them to the limelight. We Are the 15 Percent showcases a crowd-sourced collection of photos of mixed couples and families, captioned with names and locations. Michael David Murphy and Alyson West created their Tumblr blog,…

  • Mining company deploys more masked militiamen in Wisconsin

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    This is why I fought to get Walker recalled. The republican’s idea of bringing jobs to Wisconsin is to sell off our natural resources with no protections for the environment and the people who live there. Now thanks to the republican state legislature and our governor we have a paranoid nut job West Virginia company…

  • In Bangladesh How Many !!??

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    Originally posted on River Mangrove Are The Life Of Climate.IS.: Coal-fired plants in China cause smog that killed 9,900(In Bangladesh How Many !!??) Air pollution from 196 coal-fired power stations in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei caused 9,900 premature deaths in 2011, with the province, a big coal consumer, deserving most of the blame, according to…

  • Philippine National Folk Dance Company Wins Top Award

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    The world-renowned Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company won the Gold Award in the 14th World Folklore Festival in Buyukcekmece, Istanbul, Turkey, on July 7, 2013, besting dance groups from Brazil, Egypt, Greece, Ukraine, Estonia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Slovenia, Mexico, Hungary, Serbia, North Cyprus, Turkey, and Slovakia. The Bayanihan company, whose name means working together for…

  • Martian Atmosphere Destroyed Billions of Years Ago

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    CNN’s Elizabeth Landau highlights new findings by NASA’s Mars rover Curiousity: Two new studies in the journal Science this week suggest that the Martian atmosphere hasn’t changed much in terms of chemical composition in the past 4 billion years. It’s much thinner than our planet’s atmosphere, and the mix of ingredients isn’t friendly to living…

  • Saturday’s Prayer

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    In the animation above, from the NFB’s 1977 “Poets on Film No. 1,” Canadian actor Paul Hecht reads Cohen’s poem “A Kite is a Victim,” from his 1961 collection The Spice-Box of Earth. “A Kite is a Victim” is about process, it’s a formal meditation focused on the image of the kite, which flutters through each…

  • Melon Mysticism for Everyone

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    Affixed to the Manhattan Bridge chain-link fencing above Forsyth Street is a series of artwork. Arc your head upward; there it is. Artist Jen Liu created the five banners, collectively called “Melon Mysticism for Everyone.” Each panel features a watermelon carved into a mandela pattern that is eaten by different animals: goat, horse, chicken, and sheep. Chinatown diversity, the…

  • Friday’s Poem

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