Lisa Marshall is Short

Writer, arts slinger, lover of old ladies and gents who solve mysteries.
newsweek: A Brooklyn Heights playground was renamed to Adam Yauch Park today, in honor of the dearly departed Beastie Boy. [via]

newsweek:

A Brooklyn Heights playground was renamed to Adam Yauch Park today, in honor of the dearly departed Beastie Boy. [via]

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Poetry Society of America: The Runners / IRVING FELDMAN

poetrysociety:

Here or there hundreds of them, phantom-like,
bobbing in place at street corners, then
lifting their knees suddenly and leaping
into the densest, loudest traffic
(of briefest trajectories, of shortest views),
in transit yet at ease, breathing, loping,
like bearers of distance and pure…

omgponiez: Finally, I can stop worrying about finding the perfect gifts for my loved ones.

omgponiez:

Finally, I can stop worrying about finding the perfect gifts for my loved ones.

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

—Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

(Source: bookmania)

reginasworld:

Recently The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered over 70 unpublished photographs by Parks at the bottom of an old storage box wrapped in paper and marked as “Segregation Series.” These never before series of images not only give us a glimpse into the everyday life of African Americans during the 50′s but are also in full color, something that is uncommon for photographs from that era.

sjaejones: aspiringhermit: reagan-was-a-horrible-president: harmreduction: How The Zero Weeks Of Paid Maternity Leave In The U.S. Compare Globally American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer. And for first-time mothers, only about half can take paid leave when they give birth. This is shameful - and Interesting given the amount of talk we hear about “family values.” Republicans like to talk about “family values” but that’s all it is - talk.  Also…damn look at Canada. I think it’s ridiculous that maternity leave is UNPAID here in the States.

sjaejones:

aspiringhermit:

reagan-was-a-horrible-president:

harmreduction:

How The Zero Weeks Of Paid Maternity Leave In The U.S. Compare Globally

American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer. And for first-time mothers, only about half can take paid leave when they give birth.

This is shameful - and Interesting given the amount of talk we hear about “family values.”

Republicans like to talk about “family values” but that’s all it is - talk. 

Also…damn look at Canada.

I think it’s ridiculous that maternity leave is UNPAID here in the States.

(via wnyc)