The Featured Post Blog

A collection of the featured posts as they appeared on mo'time

by: EmmaPele

He chose restaurants only through recommendations from guides or from people he thought were in-the-know. He was not the sort to spontaneously pick up a novel at Waterstone's or wander aimlessly through city streets in the hopes of stumbling across an eatery. His was the life of the cultured man, a cautious life, but a friendly one. All of his careful selections were designed to make him more likeable, with either a sense of equality among his peers or a subtle air of superiority over his inferiors, never offensive or overdone, that earned him confidence and respect.
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by: FLPatty

The trench has taken on huge proportions.  Neighbors have continued it around the entire perimeter of their property and through the back yard.  My guess today is that they're installing a sprinkler system so they don't have to stand outside at 5 a.m. to water their new sod.

I was so hoping for a wall.
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by: SianNorah

Today, in the coffee shop, I turned to my roommate (Roommate #1) and said something about being an INTP Myers Briggs.  She nodded, and said, "so, that explains it."  We're one of those friendships that just clicks--offbeat sense of humor, and all.  (We had just gotten done shopping for vomit-flavored jellybeans for her boyfriend).
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by: limine

but see, the thing is, some of the people who lost everything, they have just this amazing resiliency about them. as if they have been cleansed. they glow with a kind of knowing and compassion and awareness. they have patience.

they see through everything somehow, as if they are only looking at the world around them as a ratty filmy piece of shredded tissue frayed at the edges, and they know better. they can see through it now.
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by: denimfairy

Nevertheless I can tell you what we are building. It is going to be a big blue banana. Inside of the banana, there are four bicycles and on the sides of the banana we will write the name of the local train company that operates close to the university.
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by: Malinov

There are trillions of asteroids in our solar system. There are also trillions of untracked comets, each moving at about 150,000 mph. You are four times more likely to be struck by a meteorite than a bolt of lightning.

My father was struck by lightning last summer. I think we need to start thinking seriously about the threat of an impact.
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by: BanzaiDescent

I’m sure this happened to me years ago when I was into meditation. It wasn’t a moment of enlightenment but it definitely was transcendence. It wasn’t the famed “one-with-the-world” Satori thing, which I was lucky to get a whiff of when I was younger. No, that was bliss. This was fuzzy.

Is it the road to tranquility or Alzheimer’s? Did I watch too many movies yesterday and, as a consequence, momentarily lost myself?
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posted by: howard at 09:44 | link | comments |

by: sentenceguy

This fine writing is a firm reminder of what for slaves was a grim truth: accusation led to conviction, which in turn led to punishment. They could not interrupt or amend the process in any way. Theirs was not a role that could effect any change; theirs was a role of doing as they were told. If that doing entailed being punished, then they were punished.
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by: meirnavon

The future belongs to the – artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers.

Isn't it wonderful?
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