bobbycaputo:

Why Independent Bookstores Are More Than Just Places to Buy Books

Like the independent bookstores he photographs, Bryan David Griffith is a bit of a throwback. He does have an email address, but if you want to reach him on the phone, you have to dial a landline, and most likely track him down through his answering machine. His yearlong project covering more than 20 independent bookstores around the country was photographed with a large-format film camera; he travels to each location from his home in Arizona via a makeshift camper in which he sleeps, loads film, and stores his equipment.

“I’m kind of old-school,” he said. “I have an engineering degree, so it’s not like I’m a technophobe. I just haven’t adopted technologies that don’t enrich my quality of life.”

One of those things he doesn’t want to see leave are the independent bookstores, a business he views as a lot more than simply a place to buy books—they’re a meeting place away from the often segregated, homogenous world of social media.

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Dave Chappelle Is Back (This Time We're 100% Sure It's Maybe Totally For Real)

the-feature:

We’ve heard the rumors almost since the moment he walked off the set of his legendary Comedy Central show in 2005 at the height of its popularity and disappeared: Dave Chappelle was re-emerging. Going on tour. Getting a new TV show. But this summer, something happened. Ten shows at Radio City, all sold out in hours, all brilliant.

On 'Interstellar,' Love, Time And The Limitless Prison Of Our Cosmos

the-feature:

An exploration and explanation of the ideas in Chris Nolan’s new movie, a defense of its sincerity, and the misunderstood implications of how a movie lets you see that we’re all traveling through time.

wanderingempress:

dynamicafrica:

Gullah Storyteller and Historian Theresa Jenkins Hilliard Speaks on the Importance of Preserving Gullah Culture.

A part of the last generation to have direct contact with predominantly Gullah speaking individuals, South Carolina Gulla Geechee storyteller Theresa Jenkins Hilliard speaks of her personal firsthand account of growing up in a Gullah community.

Here, Hilliard recounts her upbringing on Edisto Island, the injustices faced by the enslaved Gullah Africans and their descendents, as well as the disappearance of the Gullah language and traditions, and the importance of African-Americans reconnecting with with their Gullah and African roots. All whilst flawlessly switching between Gullah and common English.

The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of West African enslaved people brought to the coasts of the Carolinas, Georgia, and northern Florida, whose geographic isolation helped them retain a distinct culture and language.

“We have to let our young people know about the struggle, we have to go all the way back to Africa where it all began so that they know whose back they’re standing on.” - Theresa Jenkins Hilliard

Watch the video here.

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“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

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Rachel Carson (via kushandwizdom)

Good Vibes HERE

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In fact a mature person does not fall in love, he rises in love. The word ’fall’ is not right. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. They cannot manage and they cannot stand – they find a woman and they are gone, they find a man and they are gone. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don’t have the backbone, the spine; they don’t have that integrity to stand alone.

A mature person has the integrity to be alone. And when a mature person gives love, he gives without any strings attached to it: he simply gives. And when a mature person gives love, he feels grateful that you have accepted his love, not vice versa. He does not expect you to be thankful for it – no, not at all, he does not even need your thanks. He thanks you for accepting his love. And when two mature persons are in love, one of the greatest paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone; they are together so much so that they are almost one. But their oneness does not destroy their individuality, in fact, it enhances it: they become more individual.

Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. How can you dominate the person you love? Just think over it. Domination is a sort of hatred, anger, enmity. How can you think of dominating a person you love? You would love to see the person totally free, independent; you will give him more individuality. That’s why I call it the greatest paradox: they are together so much so that they are almost one, but still in that oneness they are individuals. Their individualities are not effaced – they have become more enhanced. The other has enriched them as far as their freedom is concerned.

Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

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— Osho (via psych-facts)

kateoplis:

Oh Canada, theoriginal10cents

very cool. Bilal @ 1:06:00ish