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holy moly.
This letter I found in the antique store on Saturday? It’s to the soldier’s mom in Illinois; sent from England on June 5, 1944.
Excerpt: “The letter you received from the Vet. Adm., Washington D.C. is probably a receipt of the insurance ($10,000) I have. I believe they are supposed to send the policy also.”
This now constitutes my favorite antique store find so far!
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“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (via bookoasis)
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September 2011
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“Be warned your design education will be difficult, painful and never-ending....”
– Design Education Can Not be Passively Learned, Nor Painlessly Learned - Core77
Must remember this.
(via astudyinmovement)
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“In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German...”
– Gert Dumbar (via banquethall)
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lindy
I just love swing dancers!! Since I’m the person who’s planning our two workshops this year, I’ve had recourse to contact some of the lindy hop “rock stars”, and seriously: they couldn’t be nicer or cooler. Skye, Naomi, Andrew+Karen, Mike+Laura: everyone was so polite and kind, and some of them were above and beyond in terms of helping us out. And we’re...
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9.11.11
It changed the country, and the world. But I still feel like we make too big a deal out of it all… I suppose it’s because we have so few terrible things happen to us in the US (as a whole); so when one does, we don’t know what to do with it.
AN OPEN LETTER TO NEW YORKERS ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 BY BRIAN CALAVAN
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You know what the greatest feeling in the world...
pervyanon:
Going to a social dance with a group of new dancers that you taught and watching them out there having fun and working it. I just watched some of them dance last night in proud parent mode thinking I taught them that. They are my babies and look at them go they are such good dancers ahh my babies~ Passing something you love on to a new group of people is the best feeling in the...
quote from wedding yesterday
“I mean, in my opinion, it’s go three-piece-suit or go home.” - me
“You and your three-piece suits.” - kamil
“Sooo sexy!” - me
“So expensive!” - kamil
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evening haiku :: september sixth, twenty-eleven
End of a long day Sitting, I watch the birds’ flight Cool autumn breezes.
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“In Tonga, dance remains a functioning part of the socio-political system and is...”
– Oxford Music Online
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