quote-book: “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.” -“Nuke” LaLoosh (Tim Robbin

thenationmagazine: The BiPartisan Compromise, in an infographic.

—Fiddler Cedric Watson, on what it means to be Creole in America. ~reblogged by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

I would definitely say that Creole is a really good example of what American is, because it shows how all these different things came together, and after a couple hundred years, what came out of it. It’s no longer African, it’s no longer French, it ain’t no longer Acadian, it ain’t no longer Spanish. It’s a culture of its own.

Heaven

simplyorthodox:

Heaven is full of those who believe that they do not belong there, and curiously absent of those who agree.

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Dow Jones is a resident of Alma, Ark., a town of approximately 5,000 residents near the Oklahoma border that is best known for its yearly spinach festival. When reached at his home on Dow Jones Road, Mr. Jones told DealBook that unlike the stock market, he had not taken a tumble. “I’m having a wonderful day!” he said. “I’m alive, at least.

Brook Wilensky-Lanford, from an interview in Religion Dispatches on her new book, Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden (via beingblog)

There’s nothing saying Eden stayed perfect after the Fall. Genesis says God placed a couple of angels with flaming swords outside the gates to protect the Tree of Life, and presumably bar our return, and many assume that the Garden was destroyed in Noah’s Flood, never to be seen again. There’s a small town near the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates today where they have a Tree of Knowledge, now dead, standing in a little cement park. And that’s pretty much how I picture the aftermath of Eden.

Julia Valentine @ Change This – The End of the Roundabout Way: Why Quality of Life Will Finally Take Center Stage

The next quantum leap will occur when a critical mass of people realizes that one of the major purposes of life is JOY. Until then, most people will accept an ersatz, an imitation, or a roundabout way of creating joy.

Jennifer Prosek @ Change This – A General’s Guide to Deploying an Army of Entrepreneurs

I came to see that interweaving the threads of a rope came much closer to meeting my goal of a cohesive, interactive team. That way, I eliminate the inevitable spaces between chain links, replacing them with a ‘rope’ team, where every thread is bound together.

Tim Harford @ Change This – Adapt: The Benefits of Safe Mistakes

Does economic success happen despite business failure? I’d go further than that. Economic success happens because of business failure. It’s the failure of once-dominant companies that makes space for new business ideas.