Earthquake moved Japan coast 8 feet and shifted the Earth’s axis by 4 inches.
(Source: CNN, via loveyourchaos)
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NPR’s Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reports that when news that Hosni Mubarak had stepped down after 30 years in power Cairo quickly became euphoric. The scene, she said, was “absolutely amazing.”
“People started running, hugging, waving flags. They started running toward Tahrir square,” she reports. She heard shouts of, “To Tahrir,” which has been the epicenter of this uprising.
She says the news spread quickly. She saw taxi drivers open their doors and turn on the radio. She says people got their news from cell phones too. But it didn’t take long before the crowd noise became a “cacophony.”“It was almost like they didn’t know what to do with themselves,” she reports. “People were running up and down across the bridge. People were so happy,” they were hugging others they didn’t know.
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Christians protecting Muslims during their prayers.
This particular story cannot be publicised enough.
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“Well, see, that’s my whole point. I mean you could’ve been born a single cell organism on the planet Zortex. In fact, given the odds, it’s probably more likely, but you weren’t. You we’re born a human being. And not just any human being in the history of human beings, but a human being that gets to be alive today. That gets to listen to all kinds of music, that gets to eat food from every culture. So really, you have everything to live for.” -Charlie Bartlett
Looking back through some old memories in my camera, I found this photo. It’s from a trip to California with some of the most amazing people I know. A close friend invited me and two other friends on a road trip to Disneyland and her family’s house, and I can never thank her enough for erasing our problems for a weekend by introducing us to her loving family and taking us on a walk through her neighborhood. I can never get enough of LA.
