emily grace

2013-04-04

I think these things are probably interrelated.

Wal-Mart CEO makes more in an hour than most employees make in a year:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/walmart-ceo-pay-hour-workers-year/story?id=11067470#.UVz7yqtLWfM

In America, on minimum wage, you have to work between 63 and 138 hours per week to afford an apartment.

http://www.upworthy.com/how-many-minimum-wage-work-hours-does-it-take-to-afford-a-2-bdrm-apartment-in-yo

Children who’s parents have time/ambition to be involved in their lives get better grades.

http://www.familyfacts.org/briefs/40/parental-involvement-and-childrens-well-being

House Committee votes to freeze welfare benefits to families where children are getting bad grades.

http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2013/04/03/house-committee-votes-to-starve-welfare-kids-for-making-bad-grades

2013-01-24

Articles on Meaning, Purpose, and Passion

Emily Esfahani Smith for the Atlantic: There’s More to Life Than Being Happy

“Nearly a quarter of Americans do not have a strong sense of what makes their lives meaningful.”

James A. Pearson for the Ember Arts blog: Get Excited in 2013

“This sort of reasonless love mixed with deep belief makes passion. Or for the mathematically minded: Passion = Belief + Love. The overlap of belief and love, I think, is where we find the sort of sustaining passion that will keep us excited about our lives day after week after month after year.”

Seth Fischer for the Rumpus: That’s Life

“Lately, for unspeakable reasons, everyone has been talking about how everything in the world is terribly wrong. People are blaming guns and poor mental health services, but I get the sense that these are not the only things wrong, that there is something more.

It goes beyond this problem of “the stigmatization of mental illness.” Sure, that scares me, but there’s a thing that runs deeper. I can’t name it, exactly, and I certainly don’t know what to do about it, but I think it has to do with how we think about compassion and empathy and cruelty and survival.”

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Nature has a formula that tells us when it’s time to die?

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Census Dot Map. Everyone in the U.S. and Canada. By Brandon Martin-Anderson.

2012-12-05

Uganda cloudscape.

2012-11-29

Truth and Illustrations

“Riding bikes everywhere? Using recyclable diapers? Carpooling? We’ve been doing that in Eritrea for decades. Where’s our reward for saving the Earth? Why aren’t we plastered all over Time magazine? If we lived in the same disgusting, gluttonous fashion that Americans lived, this planet would no longer be able to sustain the human race. But yet, they blame the world’s environmental ills on “overpopulation” (code: poor brown people existing) and then usurp our lifestyle habits, trademark it as their own and pat themselves on the back for doing the bare minimum.

How convenient of such a narcissistic nation.”

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