Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. And the world won’t end. And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had….
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10 Days in a Carry-On – Slide Show – NYTimes.com
A flight attendant reveals her secrets on how to pack efficiently and wrinkle-free. Maŋimuš eahkeda lohkamušat. Amma árvidehket makkar eahpesihkkarvuođas dáppe fieradan, ahte maidson doppe duođaid dárbbaša… 10 Days in a Carry-On – Slide Show – NYTimes.com
The dominance of western culture, and its globalization through this dominance, should not be confused with universalism. Just because a particular discipline or a discourse is accepted or practiced throughout the world, it does not mean that discipline or discourse is universally valid and applicable to all societies. Ziauddin Sardar in his foreword to Frantz Fanon’s Black…
Research: Carta Marina, Olaus Magnus, 1539.
More story research: Carta Marina, Olaus Magnus, 1539. A sea map depicting the Nordic and some of the Baltic countries; Wikipedia has a wonderful high-res version of this map. The proportions are wonky especially when it comes to inland areas, but I would guess my home area is somewhere above the lake located on top left…
Story research time: Drawings by Olaus Magnus, 1555, depicting various happenings in Saami life at the time. Images yanked from the SaamiBlog flickr set, where you can find more detailed captions. Unfortunately I was too tired to google deeper for uncropped images… I was bitten by the research bug thanks to MedievalPOC and decided to…