May 2013
3 posts
At Passport DC
Went around the world! – at Passport DC – See on Path.
April 2013
10 posts
“I know today is Monday and you assume it’s going to suck, but according to...”
– (via p-erfect)
“I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more...”
– Brian Tracy (via simply-quotes)
March 2013
16 posts
“Leading may be the most complex and creative of all human behaviors, and the...”
– Dallas Merrell, leadership trainer and consultant for five U.S. presidential administrations (via natcdance)
Old Column 3 - What's my Name?
http://dailyfreepress.com/2011/02/22/mahdi-whats-my-name/
Allow me to set a scene that I have yet to endure in reality, but a scenario that will probably hit the majority of you squarely between the eyes with more momentum than Bridget Jones’s backside falling from a moving aircraft as she attempts to skydive before colliding into a muddy pen of pigs. All over the world, there are unassuming men...
Old Column 2 - Super Mars-io
http://dailyfreepress.com/2011/02/21/mahdi-super-mars-io/
It’s usually three or four in the morning when the mundane becomes profound and the profound becomes mind-blowing. While using my time mindlessly clicking through cyberspace thanks to Stumbleupon.com last Thursday, I happened upon a quote that not only made me stumble, but trip up on my own feet and keel over onto the insignificance...
Feeling nostalgic, so going to go ahead and post...
Royally Smitten
Alas, the month of February has crept up stealthily upon us, coupled (excuse the pun) with the dreaded sugarcoated celebration of Valentine’s Day. Cue the ominous theme song from “Jaws.” Volumes of lovey-dovey paraphernalia litter the stores. Chalkboards scream from the sidewalks of deals on flower arrangements that will eventually wilt and die, even with the appropriate care,...
February 2013
8 posts
“There’s nothing worse than a woman who tries too hard.”
– Heidi McLaughlin, Forever My Girl (via simply-quotes)
“I generally take people out of their surroundings and try to make truthful...”
– Nadav Kander on his portrait of English actor Daniel Kaluuya that won him a World Press Photo Prize. Continue reading here. (via British Journal of Photography)
January 2013
8 posts
“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”
– Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters (via sketchofthepast)
“You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am...”
– Frida Kahlo in a letter to Diego Rivera. (via rattking)
December 2012
7 posts
dumbledorestrinkets asked: in reference to the post about facebook you just made, YOU ARE THE LURKER. congratulations, here's a pug
xcdthelimit-deactivated20130519 asked: About 8/9 years ago around this time in Geneva, you gave people in your class greetings card wishing people on Christmas and new year The card was written in Calligraphy, and I was recently reminded of this. I was curious to know why someone would go to the trouble of doing something like this. Do you want people to owe you something? Why was it needed? Why waste your time doing something...
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you...”
– Muhammad Ali (via kathleenamores)
“It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.”
– Heather Brewer (via kari-shma)
