“how can I catch up, when I don’t want to?”
“Ive been arrested and am currently on the bus. About 22 on bus with me. Two other reporters were also arrested. I’ll try to keep you posted.”
Matthew Lysiak, the Daily News reporter who was arrested at Occupy Wall Street, is liveblogging from the police van.
The Loneliness One dare not sound—
And would as soon surmise
As in its Grave go plumbing
To ascertain the size—
The Loneliness whose worst alarm
Is lest itself should see—
And perish from before itself
For just a scrutiny—
The Horror not to be surveyed—
But skirted in the Dark—
With Consciousness suspended—
And Being under Lock—
I fear me this—is Loneliness—
The Maker of the soul
Its Caverns and its Corridors
Illuminate—or seal—
Author, activist, visionary, and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
RIP Wangari Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011).
“Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own.”
via fyeahafrica:
I have always wanted to be a teacher; it has been the only constant career dream in my life. While I have found other areas of study and hope to work in other fields before/after teaching, I know that I will be a teacher. There are few things in life that bring me unadulterated joy and one of them are the incredible minds of the youth: the conversations and insights that teenagers are capable of are truly astounding and too often overlooked. While that passion for education and high school classrooms has never faltered, I am still occasionally taken aback by the deep epiphanies that students can instigate within me. The following is from my friend who taught abroad last year: For those of you feeling a bit tired / depleted…I wanted to share part of an essay that one of my Japanese students wrote on his final exam in July. The prompt asked him to write a short letter of encouragement to a friend having a hard time. For context, this student has a massive, fro-like head of curly dark hair, and he was the closest thing to a hippy I ever met in Asia. I’ll quote what he wrote verbatim: “I don’t want to say “Don’t cry. You have to be harder.” When you want to cry, you musn’t tell a lie to yourself. I think you will have a sunny smile after sad rainy days. I want you to be happy. What’s the happiness? What will you answer for this question? You look not having happinesss now. I don’t want to see such you anymore. There are a lot of people have happy lives in the world. Having favorite jobs, nice families, and great lovers. They should feel happy almost every day. It’s not wrong. I think these cases are right. Why could they get and spend happy lives? Do you want to be like them? OK, I want to, too. This is very important: They didn’t “get.” Oh, please listen to me more. They “found” their happiness in their lives. You have not noticed yet. To be as you are is very very wonderful. You have to know and notice yourself and your life. If you can’t wait to be happy, you can start to look for your happiness. But you already have many happinesses. Let’s find your happiness in your life. Don’t be nervous. Take it easy. You’ll be the happiest in the world someday.”
U.S. student loan debt has increased by 25% since 2008, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
From Justin Lahart:
Mortgage debt, home equity loans, credit card debt and auto loans are all down sharply — partly because people are being more careful, but also because many have defaulted.
But student loans are up sharply. There was $550 billion in student debt outstanding in the second quarter, up 25% from $440 billion in the third quarter of 2008.
And yet we have the worst job market for graduating college seniors since The Great Depression. I can’t help but feel that this is where the economic collapse of America is going to come from, not from medicare or medicaid maybe not even from the Bush Tax cuts. This system of student debt is unsustainable and has basically removed an entire generation from the American Dream.
-Joe
I’ve been saying student loans are the next bubble for forever
