shared air

AP Photos: Cuba as seen on a people-to-people tour

David McCullough at Wellesley Commencement: ‘You Are Not Special’ (via Newsweek/The Daily Beast).  He also points out that YOLO, if grammatically correct, should be YLOO. Less of a ring to it, but it's true.

"the mindy project" staring the office's mindy kaling. coming to fox this fall. 

i need this girl to blow up- she's been amazing for years.

Maurice Sendak, author of "Where The Wild Things Are" dies at 83. (via nprfreshair)

from NYTimes "Many G.O.P. Freshmen Who Stormed the House Find It Harder to Stay Seated"

King will be speaking at NYPL's Schomburg Center this Tuesday.

awE naturalE is an album without floors or ceilings. It neither begins nor ends. It doesn’t announce its existence with grand intentions or furrowed severity—it prefers to adroitly hover in the air.

from nytimes "Global Failures on a Haitian Epidemic" by Deborah Sontag

A look at the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of Lt. Col. John Darin Loftis, one of the U.S. Air Force’s prized experts in Afghan language and culture, who was killed in Kabul on Feb. 25, 2012.