Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: quotes

  • they are just opinions

    “The way to stop the war is to stop hating the enemy. It starts with seeing our opinions of ourselves and of others as simply our take on reality and not making them a reason to increase the negativity on the planet… …It’s up to us to sort out what is opinion and what is…

  • “I needed to know what Margot was like when she wasn’t being Margot.’ -From Paper Towns by John Green.

  • the line

    “The truth of the line overwhelms all other considerations.” -Leonard Cohen, The Book Of Longing. I have been reading The Book Of Longing and have been very inspired by it. I really want to learn more about Cohen. He wrote some of it while staying at Mt Baldy Zen Center as a Buddhist Monk in…

  • “And, of course, what’s also routine is that somebody, somewhere will comment and say, Obama politicized this issue. Well, this is something we should politicize. It is relevant to our common life together, to the body politic. I would ask news organizations — because I won’t put these facts forward — have news organizations tally…

  • Form does not differ from emptiness 

    “All cultures are mass illusions;  it’s a question of consciously shaping your illusion  to create a positive bubbling up of optimism, idealism,  enthusiasm, and creativity… And So how you create your world is something that you must take full responsibility for. You’re the one who creates your world.” – Robert Thurman Circling the sacred mountain