RelentlesslyOptimistic

Cut Leaf Illustrations

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Amazing painting made with colored plexiglass airplanes

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These flip-flops will grow on you

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Christmas is over for another year (reblog)

Still my favorite Christmas pic.

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Mary's test

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Well “hells yes” to you, buddy. Hells yes.

Bravo, my friend.  Bravo.  Even though I have no toilet issues that need solving at this time, I feel like we understand each other.  I feel like you’re a dreamer. 

Why do I think that?  Because I doubt this idea came from corporate.  I doubt upper management’s business plan vis-a-vis plumbing equipment was for each store to nominate one employee to hand-decorate the old demo toilet. 

If that memo exists, I stand corrected.  But no, I think this was a grassroots effort.  I think you took it upon yourself to move some serious toilet appliances this month.  And when you saw that demo toilet in the back room, you said to yourself, “Hells yes.”

Well “hells yes” to you, buddy.  Hells yes.  That is the kind of ownership and initiative we should all be taking.  We could stand to spend a little more time identifying problems and proposing real solutions around here.  All we need is an idea, a patch of fake grass from aisle 4, and some poster board from aisle 20 to get this thing started.

I agree with you that we can’t wait for the big ideas to come down from on high, and we can’t wait for permission or approval.  Kind of like how you didn’t run the Toilet Monster by your manager before you rolled it to the front of the store.

And you know what?  It worked.  It worked because I came home with a 3-pack of 5/16″ x 3″ galvanized steel toilet tank bolts and a Fluidmaster Adjust-a-Flush 2″ toilet tank flapper, and I have absolutely no idea what they do.

Happy Thanksgiving,

Katherine

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Confessions Of A Pug

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Mornings on Maple Street: Attaching stories to Lewis Hine's Child Labor photos

UPDATE: Lewis Hine was a photographer who began working for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) in 1908 documenting working children.

Joe Manning ferreted out the stories behind this picture, and many others:

"As I type the opening words of this story, it has been five years to the month since I saw this picture for the first time, in August of 2006. It was posted on a photo blog I ran across while searching for information about Lewis Hine."

The children and families depicted in the child labor photographs of Lewis Hine were unwittingly caught in the act of making history, but we know almost nothing about them. The pictures were taken for a noble purpose, but a century later, they have become an enormous photo album of the American family. By finding out what happened to some of them, and by revealing the photos to their descendants (most descendants are unaware of them), we are dignifying their lives, and the lives of everyone that history has forgotten.

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Kenny G and Miles Davis and Nancy Reagan

Above: Kenny G and Miles Davis.

Miles Davis upon meeting First Lady Nancy Reagan: "Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except fuck the president?"

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There he is!

and there!

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The art of the bike chain

From sculptor Yeong-Deok Seo via www.bookofjoe.com

Cute Picture Break: Juxtaposition series

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Batman: "I am the 1%"

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"to imagine...is among mankind’s deepest needs"

The dreams are eloquent, but they are also beautiful. That aspect seems to have escaped Freud in his theory of dreams. Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind’s deepest needs. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, p59, Milan Kundera, 1 April 1929

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Steve Jobs: Don't Settle. Change Something. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

"You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."

"If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

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