and this is...
what i want to remember
“When we fall in love with someone there’s a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotional snapshot, that we carry with us forever. If we’re lucky, if we’re very, very lucky, the person we fall in love with will always resemble that snapshot.” — Jim Geoghan, Light Sensitive: A Play in Two Acts (photo by -ocean)
packing is exhausting.
manhattan at midnight…as seen from a boat on the water.
my best friend and her family.
lower east side shares its feelings on post-its.
a reason to pay attention to the news, and understand your world. and hopefully a reason to lend a hand…
A BBC map detailing the drought in the Horn of Africa shows the incredibly large percentage of the Horn that is in danger. It also shows that the worst effects are concentrated in the South: the Al-Shabaab controlled areas.
This is particularly bad news, because Al-Shabaab, Somalia’s notoriously brutal Al Qaeda cell, is denying that there is a famine at all. Their spokesman, Ali Mohamud Rage said yesterday that the idea that there was a famine was “utter nonsense, 100 percent baseless and sheer propaganda.” They say their ban on aid groups in the areas under their control would remain in effect. Meanwhile, nearly half of the Somali population faces a crisis that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said will take $300 million to address.
Read more at Al Jazeera and the BBC.
new shoes. happy feet.
morning train. bringer of air conditioned relief. crowded.
The Map of America As Seen by a New Yorker
(via: funny or die)
