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Deer Ridge Lookout, Idaho. 24 miles away from Bonners Ferry, Idaho where I will be spending my summer. It is a 14 x 14 cabin that is on a 40 foot high frame that you can rent for a night. Too bad it is booked for most of the summer.
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"When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. “My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.”
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book “The Women’s History of the World” (recently republished as “Who Cooked the Last Supper?”) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering."
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book “The Women’s History of the World” (recently republished as “Who Cooked the Last Supper?”) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering."
— Sandi Toksvig, ‘Top 10 unsung heroines’ (via thepinesaredancing)
(Source: ninestories, via thepinesaredancing)
"We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are."
— Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
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Reading in India by Steve McCurry.
Another photoset of McCurry’s amazing portraits.
This time we visit India. Probably his favorite place. Bright, colourful and beautiful.
Previous post: Afghanistan.
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"Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind."
— Jeanette Winterson (via bookporn)
(Source: the-ramblings-of-the-writers, via bookporn)
