Metaphor

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• Im not dead yet.

  
  The Opiate of the Masses — Authority: 118
  But I drove my mother to the airport today. After a visit spanning five of the longest days I have ever experienced. Longer and as grueling as than the days Ive given birth. Longer and as painful as the days Ive had root canal surgery. Longer and more tedious than the time I sat in the school auditorium listening ...
  9 hours ago

• The messy desk as metaphor

  
  Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog — Authority: 128
  If you start with the metaphor of your desk and work area as an analog for the universe, you begin to get an understanding of the process by which material is created, possibly edited, possibly even made to fit other such materials, then sent forth for yet another process, the one called publication. One of your ...
  11 hours ago

• How To Remember Things

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  I once came up with a metaphor I thought perfectly captured the sheer mass of material my classmates and I were expected to memorize in our first two years of medical school: it was like being asked to enter a grocery store and memorize the names of every product in the store, their number and location, every ...
  13 hours ago

• staff as a family

  
  John Spencer's Blog — Authority: 430
  We gather around the firewood in the midst of an urban enclave, pretending subconciously that we are cave dwellers or mountain people or anything other than inhabitants of cookie-cutter housing.   Its an awkward assembly of couples.  We range in age, from mid-twenties to fifties.  We range in income from a meager ...
  15 hours ago

• moments

  
  David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts — Authority: 92
  How would you define a moment? I love how this video takes absolutely random visuals and makes a story out of them… a story about the value of time, or at least single moments in time. This video changes my breathing pattern, it alters my thoughts, moment by moment, in a way that says more than words can. I think ...
  18 hours ago

• Sascha, Mischa, Gus: The Yiddish Aurora Borealis

  
  Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog — Authority: 128
  You have heard of but never seen the aurora borealis , and know vaguely that it is visible at night in extreme northern and southern latitudes, is caused by among other things, colliding particles.  Thus you have given away the fact that you have not in your lifetime been farther north than Friday Harbor on San Juan ...
  1 day ago

• Cry Havoc, too often, in the wrong way, and...

  
  Junkk Male RE:View — Authority: 136
  Storm winds batter Britain No looking good, to be sure. Then this arrived: A Flood Warning has been issued for the River Wye from Hereford To Ross On Wye area. Flooding of homes and businesses is expected. Act now! The Environment Agency advises you to act now: - Ring Floodline on 0845 988 1188 for up ...
  1 day ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 days ago

• Campbell Alliance

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 147
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  3 days ago

• Core Create

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 147
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  3 days ago

• Palio

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 147
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  3 days ago

• Some Days

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 425
    Some days I think I’m radioactive because … it feels like I’m living a half-life.   note: a candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long, so a candle that burns twice as dim must burn twice as long … but why bother? double note: an unlit candle lasts the longest but it’s kind of ...
  3 days ago

• Treximet – head off

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 147
  93" height="125" /> Click on image for original file provided by AdPharm “My migraines are so excruciating I just want to take my head off.” Treximet is superior to the ingredient in Imitrex tablets at relieving migraine pain. Brand name: Treximet Generic name/category: sumatriptan and ...
  3 days ago

• A Little Explosion of Fiction

  
  The Woo Woo Teacup Journal — Authority: 123
  “Every metaphor or simile is a little explosion of fiction within the larger fiction of the novel or story.” – James Wood I found this sparkling sentence – a quotable quote – on page 202 of James Wood’s “How Fiction Works.”
  4 days ago

• Essay on blindness

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 165
  Blindness is still what hinders people from looking afar. They cant see beauty, oceans and stars, they lack compassion For themselves and even for the others.They cling to stupid read more
  4 days ago

• The Cactus Flower

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 165
  Surviving without any water or even care, the enigmatic cactus flower bloomed alone in a harsh tropical desert lost somewhere, hidden by its shy thorns and a quiet stone. read more
  5 days ago

• Sanofi Pasteur

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 147
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  5 days ago

• Shire

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 147
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  5 days ago

• Step Back from the Baggage Claim: Good airport behavior could change the world

  
  Gadling — Authority: 690
  Filed under: Activism , Stories , Video , Books , Transportation , Airports Back in April, Gadling reviewed Step Back from the Baggage Claim , a book Jason Barger wrote about human behavior based on a seven- day trip he took to seven airports without leaving any of them. For the entire week he observed ...
  6 days ago

• Notoginseng

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 147
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  6 days ago

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