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Bold and sassy. These tights make a statement! Lost at E Minor can be credited for finding and featuring these little must-haves from Le Queues de Sardines:

The Warrior of Light and His World by Paulo Coelho The Warrior of Light is always trying to improve. Each blow of his sword carries with it centuries of wisdom and meditation. Each blow has to have the force and the skill of all the warriors of the past, who still continue to bless the [...]

Simple yet complex. Impersonal yet speaks directly to the heart. Motivates you to become your best self. Paulo Coelho is good at that isn’t he. Speaking not to your mind or ego… but directly to your heart! A short story from Paulo Coelho: source: “Like the Flowing River” by Paulo Coelho A boy was watching [...]

Ladies and gents… I’ve started yet another project. It’s an experiment of a new concept that I came up with (at least I think I did) called dual blogging. Basically, it’s a blog that features two main contributors that blog in a conversation-like, back-and-forth manner: A remark and its retort. Often, a friend, Justin Mayfield, [...]

A new film about roving reporter Nicholas Kristof will be released soon. Looks exciting. This man does exactly what I aspire to do… and have already begun doing on a smaller-scale. View the trailer: The Reporter Learn more about Kristof by clicking here. Visit his NYTimes blog by clicking here.

I posted this on Facebook and it sparked some interesting feedback. So I figured it would post it here as well: The Content National Park Portraits by Teresa Barry “We need wilderness,” claimed the America writer Edward Abbey, “whether or now we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may [...]

I haven’t really thought about my resolutions would be for 2010 yet. I’m actually quite content with how I live life and view life. I’m already doing much of what I have a burning passion to do. I embrace change, so I’m often making changes I wish to make. But, here are four just to [...]

Low-income women are targets for an alarming rate of violence in Guatemala. The Interior Ministry of Guatemala reports that more than 700 women were murdered in Guatemala last year. Below the news brief published by the Latin American Herald Tribune: GUATEMALA CITY – Some 708 women were killed in Guatemala in 2009, based on Interior [...]