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SNL40 "Wolves" cover. Credit for the images = somewhere in the depths of the internet; I just put one on top of the other. 

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People, a How-to: Part I

The 2nd Formulation of the Categorical Imperative: "Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end." -- Immanuel Kant Translation: Treat people (including yourself) as ends, not as means. Don't use them (or yourself).

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One of the great American classics.

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Ecce Agnus Dei

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If I do not become a Saint when I am young, I shall never become one.

St. John Berchmans, died at age 22.

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That container that was in the crematorium is now in a jar and waiting ... So rarely do we buy jam for the jar it comes in

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you look like a gray autumn day after a heavy rain before all the leaves have changed at sunset

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WAKA FLOCKA FLAME FOR PINE BROS. 

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Street lights and sidewalk, sometime this year.

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RIP 5/18/2014

Sorrow in the grass comes in white in the morning like powdered sugar on Grandma’s french toast all sweet, but so sad to know she doesn’t make it anymore and yet the snow still falls

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Gola – by Curtis Tinsley

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It's chilly and the air embraces your lungs -- cross country weather. You remember running, don't you? It's been awhile. You wonder if you could even do it, anymore. Maybe you'll try. A leaf falls. Maybe you'll put your shorts on, slip on the shoes you're too lazy to tie so you just keep them tied. You probably couldn't pry the knot apart -- when's the last time you wore these? Gust of wind, more leaves falling. An empty water bottle rolls on the pavement and rattles with the drumming of all the little pebbles and leaves and twigs until it finally stops in a pile near a storm drain, wet and immobile. You don't have time to run.

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THEY KNOW BETTER THEY KNOW BETTER Really, though. Obama goin' in. Not that it's necessarily a good thing -- but something's gotta be done by somebody...

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Hol' up! HOL' UP!

Philip II: Hol’ up, Don Fernando

Philip II offering Don Fernando to Victory (c. 1570), Titian / Hol’ up, Kendrick Lamar

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You know what it feels like to hold a burning piece of paper, maybe even trying to read it as the flames get close to your fingers until all you’re holding is a curl of ash by its white ear tip yet the words still hover in the air? That’s how I feel now.

Dean Young, “Belief in Magic,” Poetry, July/August 2014.

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That's just how I feel That's just how I feel

ya bish

Chestnut Tree in Blossom (1887), Vincent van Gogh / Money Trees, Kendrick Lamar ft. Jay Rock

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I spy with my little eye...