This little company from Kenya makes toys from slippers that wash up on the beach. Pictures by Ben Curtis
How glorious is this?! Upcycling at its finest…
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I always get taken aback
When I meet people with
Summer in their hearts
Because the new season
Doesn’t change
The way they feel
It just makes what they carry
Inside them
More real
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For foreigners, learning to speak Chinese is a hard task. But learning to read the beautiful, often complex characters of the Chinese written language may be less difficult. In this video ShaoLan walks through a simple lesson in recognizing the ideas behind the characters and their meaning — building from a few simple forms to more complex concepts. Call it Chineasy.
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and you watch and you work: You don’t give up."
— Anne Lamott (via quote-book)
NEW DELHI (AP) — “their classroom is a flattened patch of dirt and rocks under the elevated rail tracks. their blackboards are rectangles painted on a chipped concrete wall. their teacher is a shop owner with no formal training, but a conviction that education is their only hope.
“for some of these dozens of children of poor migrant workers in India’s capital, this makeshift, open-air school under the rumble of mass transit is the only school they have. others who attend overcrowded and dismal government schools come here as well — to actually learn. here they are provided thanks to a single benefactor with free backpacks, socks and shoes
“india’s right to education act promising free, compulsory schooling to all children ages 6 to 14 was supposed to take full effect march 31, 2013, but millions of children still don’t go to school and many who do are getting only the barest of educations.
“so every morning, more than 50 children gather under the bridge for two hours of lessons at rajesh kumar’s informal school. they sweep the dirt flat and roll out foam mats to sit on, just meters from the bushes were several men had been squatting and defecating minutes earlier.”
photos altaf qadri
Mr Takei, I would marry you in a heart beat
I could barely read the one that starts with, “Because we as young people need parents…”
btw I hate people who advocate for this stuff because they don’t realize what huge hypocrites they are when it comes to single/widowed parents
If one of those girls gets pregnant, and the guy leaves her, (and surely they’re pro-life) when she has the baby she’s going against her own rules of needing a “mommy and a daddy.”
These people just make me so angry, which makes me like Takei’s responses even more.
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To This Day Project (x)
I’ve been waiting so damn long for this gifset…
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