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Be of service. You are taking your degree into a society dominated by concentrated poverty and a vulnerable middle class, a society where it is harder to pay for education, harder to find a job, harder to buy a house and harder to hold onto those things even if you manage to get them. You are entering adulthood during a period of mass incarceration and near constant war. There is a lot for you to do. Service is the rent you pay for the space you take up on the earth, and as a relatively privileged American you take up a lot of space. We are the most consuming, polluting, wasteful nation on earth. So your rent is steep. Pay it with service.

Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry’s advice to Class of 2013 (via bitchwhoisyou)

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the13thchair:

For those of you attending Prom remember…
Marching Band Nerds Handbook

the13thchair:

For those of you attending Prom remember…

Marching Band Nerds Handbook

windycitylibrarian:

Time lapse video of OKC tornado demonstrating, once again, just how awesome and yet, terrifying tornadoes are.

soulpancake:

Our hearts grieve for the loss of such an incredible and inspiring young man, but rejoice knowing that he is free to soar, no longer confined to the weight of this world. 

Zach Sobiech, you have brightened our lives by the way you lived yours and sharing with us your music. When we look up to the clouds, we will be reminded by your spirit. Thank you for sharing your story with us. Rest in peace. 

I bought his whole album. Go watch this from Upworthy. So worth it. http://www.upworthy.com/this-kid-just-died-what-he-left-behind-is-wondtacular-rip

Marketing music education

I honestly never thought it would come to this.

If you had told me twenty or even ten years ago that I would have to actively fight to ensure my child access to the same music education I enjoyed, I would have thought you were Chicken Little.

Unbelievably…

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The government is cutting music programmes in schools and slashing Arts grants as gleefully as a morbidly American kid in Baskin Robbins. So if only to stick it to the man, isn’t it worth fighting back in some small way? So write your damn book. Learn a Chopin prelude, get all Jackson Pollock with the kids, spend a few hours writing a Haiku. Do it because it counts even without the fanfare, the money, the fame… .

Concert pianist James Rhodes articulates the urgency of finding your purpose and doing what you love. As a wise woman eloquently put it, “Start with a big, fat lump in your throat, start with a profound sense of wrong, a deep homesickness, or a crazy lovesickness, and run with it.” (via explore-blog)

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SUDA - STAND UP. DEMAND ACTION.: We have very little time and far too much to lose.

standupdemandaction:

Over the past two budgetary cycles in Pennsylvania, public education has taken a backseat. $860 million has been cut from Pennsylvania public schools. As the state legislature gears up for their next budgetary season, we need to all be aware of what we have lost over the past two years, and what…

Ooooh snuggle puppy of mine, everything about you is especially fine….fuzzy little snuggle puppy, I love you! (at Home sweet home)

Ooooh snuggle puppy of mine, everything about you is especially fine….fuzzy little snuggle puppy, I love you! (at Home sweet home)