n-judah love song

happiness flowchart

-happier today-

via mrpenguino.tumblr.com

An Entirely Other Day | birdhouse for your soul

Our lives are being documented, in ways large and small and trivial and important, and it will all be waiting out there for anybody who has the inclination to find it. People rightly worry about the implications of all this — about what it means for privacy and for history — but right now, remembering Art and the birdhouse and what it was like to be part of a young couple on vacation in a strange and dangerous land, I can only be glad for it, thankful even, and hope that someday, someone will find this tiny story — last modified in November 2009 — and think fondly of me.

spotted at www.eod.com

thanks to Andre.

dia de los muertos | via a fave vox-er

Will my sugar skull be enough to make you want to return
   just for this one night
Will the sound of laughter and clinking glasses
   be enough to draw you out from where you are
What if the laughter is tinny and hollow
   because the celebration is too soon
   or too far after the fact

Will my romanticized remembrance of you

  make it all real

Will my altar make up for the days or years
   during which I never called
   never sent a letter to ask how you are
Will it matter to you that I spent more time constructing a memory
   than an actual relationship
Or, are you willing for the sake of a good party and old times
   to pretend with me
   that I was attentive in life
   and that I deserve this visit

via electricfirefly.vox.com

Copenhagen | Autumn Morning

Copenhagen Autumn Morning
Originally uploaded by [Zakkalicious / Mikael]

photo via Copenhagen Cycle Chic - whose author is speaking here in SF at SPUR tomorrow!

LUNCHTIME FORUM

Friday, October 30, 2009 12:30pm

Bike like the Danes

The 500,000 people who use bicycles each day in Copenhagen are not “cyclists,” nor are they “environmentalists.” They merely choose to ride because of safe, quick infrastructure. After 30 years of traffic and urban planning, the bicycle has become a democratic tool liberating Copenhagenites from cars and created the foundations for one of the world's most liveable cities. Speaker Mikael Coleville-Andersen is Denmark's leading bicycle advocate, advising cities, towns and organizations about bicycle culture, infrastructure and urban planning with a unique focus on the anthropological aspects of getting more citizens to choose the bicycle.

Thanks to Adrienne at Change Your Life, Ride a Bike for the heads up.