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"Stocking pantries is a finite answer to an infinite problem: Life is precious and indefinite. It ends, eventually, whether you buy 17 tins of tuna or not. The tuna is the symbol of our fears, our attempts to take human control over something that is larger than humanity. Hurricanes are horrible. If the power goes out or the roof caves in — if something unspeakable happens — let it be known that we did the tiny things we could do to prepare. We bought the canned fish."

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Monica Hesse, in her story on the stockpile of hurricane food most of us suddenly don’t need. (via washingtonpoststyle)

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life:

Pictured Above: A kitten walks on the pitch during the friendly football match Tunisia vs. France in 2010.
Our Friday treat to you — Big Men, Little Animals

Pictured Above: A kitten walks on the pitch during the friendly football match Tunisia vs. France in 2010.

Our Friday treat to you — Big Men, Little Animals

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"You hear more complaints about the summer because the city has been occupied by quite talkative persons from the far north."

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via the littlest

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Want to escape, here.

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Fashion inspiration, via Advanced Style

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If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

—William James via Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life

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