Tip from December 21th 2012: Don´t mess with Maya people
According to one Spanish saying: "If you cross a Galician on the stairs, you can't tell if they´re going up or down"
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About 6,000 Indians from the Lacandon Jungle arrived early on Friday at the municipality of Ocosingo in a silent march, which toured the town and reached the headquarters of the municipal presidency of the constitutional government, all amidst a steady drizzle.
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“what happened, Mom? Why are you crying?”
“Because since last summer I gained some pounds and the bikini is horrible on me”
“I‘d say that more than half of humanity can not gain a gram because did not have enough to eat…
…but you need comfort, and not look like a fool, right?”
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- O que aconteceu, mamae? Por que a senhora está chorando?- Desde o ultimo verao, eu engordei e o biquini está horrivel em mim…
- Eu te diria que mais da metade da humanidade nao pode engordar um grama porque nao tinha o que comer…
…. mas a senhora precisa de consolo, e nao parecer uma tola, certo?”
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Got three minutes? Do you have a tissue handy? There’s a small town in Paraguay built on a landfill and it has an orchestra that plays instruments created out of literal trash, made lovingly for them by their community.
Read more about the story of Landfill Harmonic at: http://matadornetwork.com/change/landfill-harmonic-a-story-of-creativity-hope-and-endurance-interview/#PZGWPf4FDH2gJo2G.99
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Violencia Rivas, pre-punk star. [English subtitles]
*Getting ready for Christmas…*
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Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person’s essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via ybb55)via ybb55➜ -
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Librarians are very smart. They designed card catalogs to fit wine bottles perfectly. Very forward thinking, I’d say.
