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Beingtweets

  1. "Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memo instagr.am/p/LECjg3RK6b/
  2. @nataliealb Hi Natalie. There's a rich discussion taking place on FB (on.fb.me/KTuc6b) + in the post comments. Feel free to respond!
  3. It's Friday. It's Memorial Day weekend. Lay it down on National Tap Dance Day! tmblr.co/Z37ZbyM6Uv7f
  4. "Our worship is small when we reduce it to music..." ~@NatalieAlb (w/ illustration): bit.ly/K3Z9aR
  5. Photo: tmblr.co/Z37ZbyM6ORFu
  6. "We are not given dreams in order to be thwarted and frustrated. We are given dreams as guides." -Julia Came instagr.am/p/LBhX5SxK4g/
  7. Science Picture of the Day: The Mars Horizon via @TheAtlantic: tmblr.co/Z37ZbyM2sGIr
  8. This lecture with Cemalnur Sargut (@cemalinur) on living tasawwuf is much like a dharma talk, but in Sufistic terms: bit.ly/KWsUYj
  9. "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to instagr.am/p/K-96LWRK5U/
  10. Stop in. RT @thinkrsandmakrs: Our version of celebrity sightings: Krista Tippett, and the whole staff of The Current... fb.me/1Mmnzwzih
  11. "Not only is your story worth telling but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes instagr.am/p/K8RQX2xK4s/
  12. Loving the woodcut feel of these book cover illustrations for Evelyn Waugh series from Back Bay. instagr.am/p/K7l0N0RK3b/
  13. RT @ReligionNewsNow: Religious involvement in partisan politics is driving young Americans away from organized religion ow.ly/b4jjv
  14. Counting the Omer in the modern day. There's an app for that -- and an email, and an RSS feed, and a Twitter account... bit.ly/JkSw4z
  15. She has a black cape... RT @BridgetEMOB: Krista Tippett is my faux arch-nemesis.
  16. "We work in the dark--we do what we can--we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is o instagr.am/p/K5uwSGxK81/
  17. MT @xeni: [* if you follow are a cancer patient going into surgery soon, like me, would also love to hear how you're coping w/pre-op angst.]
  18. A fine commentary from @The_Morning_Sun predicated on our show with Gordon Hempton in "The Last Quiet Places": bit.ly/LcWHhz
  19. "The preference for symmetry was the product of non-differential conditioning." tmblr.co/Z37ZbyLt9i5C
  20. "Each time this lovely 23-year-old took the stage to perform a poem, the audience quieted, reflected, + delighted..." bit.ly/JpsChn