February 1, 2012
We’re the risks we take
but even more than that, we’re
the ones we didn’t.
January 29, 2012
January 27, 2012
In any case you mustn’t confuse a single failure with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via honeyforthehomeless)

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January 26, 2012
cornersoftheworld:

“I met Lola Purping during our “photo-walk” at Binondo today. She was  sitting quietly at the gutter right outside the San Lorenzo Ruiz Church.  I couldn’t help but noticed the big lump on her face that she is trying  to cover with her hair. She would throw some shy glances at me perhaps  because she felt uneasy that a big guy carrying a huge camera is staring  at her. I smiled at her and she timidly smiled back at me. I sat  besides her and tried to strike a conversation. Lola Purping is  a street dweller from Samar. She is about 70 years old with poor  eyesight and carrying a large tumor near her face. She and her  grandchildren would sleep with empty stomachs on the streets where and  whenever the night would catch them. I told her that she is a bit old to  take care of her grandchildren. She told me that her children left her  without a choice as they went to Cotobato and never returned until now. 2 days ago, she lost her few valuables, money and medicines to a  pickpocket as she was going out of the church where she stays from  morning till afternoon. I asked her if I can take her photo and  put her story on my blog hoping that some kind souls might be able to  offer some help – any help. With tears on her eyes, she nodded.  If you happen to pass by San Lorenzo Ruiz Church in Binondo, you might  see Lola Purping quietly sitting along the gutter when she is not inside  the church praying. Please offer a kind smile to her. I would  appreciate if you can share this and make it viral until it reaches the  heart of someone capable of and willing to help her and her grand  children.”

cornersoftheworld:

“I met Lola Purping during our “photo-walk” at Binondo today. She was sitting quietly at the gutter right outside the San Lorenzo Ruiz Church. I couldn’t help but noticed the big lump on her face that she is trying to cover with her hair. She would throw some shy glances at me perhaps because she felt uneasy that a big guy carrying a huge camera is staring at her. I smiled at her and she timidly smiled back at me. I sat besides her and tried to strike a conversation.

Lola Purping is a street dweller from Samar. She is about 70 years old with poor eyesight and carrying a large tumor near her face. She and her grandchildren would sleep with empty stomachs on the streets where and whenever the night would catch them. I told her that she is a bit old to take care of her grandchildren. She told me that her children left her without a choice as they went to Cotobato and never returned until now.

2 days ago, she lost her few valuables, money and medicines to a pickpocket as she was going out of the church where she stays from morning till afternoon.

I asked her if I can take her photo and put her story on my blog hoping that some kind souls might be able to offer some help – any help. With tears on her eyes, she nodded.

If you happen to pass by San Lorenzo Ruiz Church in Binondo, you might see Lola Purping quietly sitting along the gutter when she is not inside the church praying. Please offer a kind smile to her.

I would appreciate if you can share this and make it viral until it reaches the heart of someone capable of and willing to help her and her grand children.”

(via gogogadgetcopter)

“…to me, Van Gogh is the finest painter of them all.Certainly, the most popular, great painter of all time, the most beloved. His command of color the most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty.Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world…no one had ever done it before. Perhaps, no one ever will again. To my mind, that strange, wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not only the world’s greatest artist, but also one of the greatest men who ever lived.” - [x]

(Source: gwainesexual, via howthe-fuck)

January 25, 2012

vondell-swain:

my half-horse Divination Professor keeps rejecting my romantic advances

I feel like I’m stuck in the Firenze zone

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