Found Words – Connell and Kubisch

Thus, our experience suggests that a common answer to the question, “What do you expect to be doing in the fifth year of the initiative?” is “Ask us in the fourth year, and we’ll tell you.”

Found Words/Written Words – Joni Mitchell

“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone”

Just spent the last 24 hours with no power due to the “snowpocalypse 2010″ that has engulfed the Mid-Atlantic Region.  The first few hours were boring.  I’ve grown accustomed to my high speed internet and FiOs Cable.  Then the daylight started to dim and going to the restroom became mildly amusing, if not adventurous.  Around hour 10 one realizes that no electricity means no oven.  And “HoHo”s, and tortilla chips lose their luster.  Around hour 11 one realizes that no electricity means no refrigerator, at which point the “save the beer!” mantra kicks in, which is fun because you have the worlds largest icebox on your back deck.  Seriously, throwing a few long necks into 3 feet of snow like they’re darts is kind of fun, especially 30 minutes later when you’re enjoying an ice cold miller light.  But around hour 12 you realize that “no electricity”=no heat.  As my father, who’s admittedly reserved when it comes to language, put it, “This shit ain’t fun.”

Found Words – State of the Union

“The best anti-poverty program around is a world class education”

“No one should go broke, because they decided to go to college”

I’ve been getting caught up on the State of the Union over the last week.  I’m still not sure how I feel about the content, and politics, covered in it.  But some things were addressed that I find very interesting, and merit more attention.

Found Words- Blessid Union of Souls

“The things that we’re afraid of are gonna show us what we’re made of in the end”

Found Words – Holman

“Research purists will object that this is not research at all— no hypotheses, no samples, no control groups, no c/»-square tests. But if research includes residents of an inner city zone collecting, evaluating and interpreting material in order to plan a service, then this is a relevant example.”

- research from the underside

Found Words – New York Times

I have found my body doing this…

Abstract thoughts? The body takes them literally.

Found Words – JH

“One thing that is clear, and I don’t even know her that well, is that you are dating perhaps the most eminently reasonable girl on the planet.”

Found Words – Stuff Christians Like

“I put on 10 pounds over the holidays primarily from Salt & Vinegar Pringles (I swear those things are made from unicorn dreams)”

- SCL

Found Words – Laughter

“If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.”
-Anonymous

Found Words/Found Music – Regina Spektor

“It started out as a feeling
Which then grew into a hope
Which then turned into a quiet thought
Which then turned into a quiet word

And then that word grew louder and louder
‘Til it was a battle cry

I’ll come back
When you call me
No need to say goodbye

Just because everything’s changing
Doesn’t mean it’s never
Been this way before

All you can do is try to know
Who your friends are
As you head off to the war

Pick a star on the dark horizon
And follow the light

You’ll come back
When it’s over
No need to say good bye

You’ll come back
When it’s over
No need to say good bye

Now we’re back to the beginning
It’s just a feeling and no one knows yet
But just because they can’t feel it too
Doesn’t mean that you have to forget

Let your memories grow stronger and stronger
‘Til they’re before your eyes

You’ll come back
When they call you
No need to say good bye

You’ll come back
When they call you
No need to say good bye”

-The Call