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The Oxford Project

Read more about it here.

I got goosebumps reading about this and felt very moved for some reason.  Maybe I am missing the feeling of a small town?  It's just the idea of that snapshot of two moments in time separated by many years, twists and turns, the expected and the unexpected...wow.

I imagine a few of my loved ones who might appreciate this like I do may find a copy of the book under the Christmas tree this year.

(Speaking of Christmas gift books, this was last year's:  My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals.  Very fun and beautiful photography).

Something to talk about

This is as important an issue, if not more important, as anything else in this election, in that it could have a much longer lasting/far reaching impact on the politics/policies of this country, in fact for the rest of my adult life.  From CNN.com:

Election could decide future of the federal courts

"The future occupant of the White House could have the opportunity to name perhaps three or four justices, which could either solidify an ideologically split bench or dramatically move it further right."

I can only hope that this is talked about more leading up to November 4.

Huh.

PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk.

My first instinct is how very weird and kind of gross that would be.  But really, is it that off the wall?

From the article: "The fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a baby cow just doesn't make sense," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman.

Hmmm, interesting.  I think.

Neat.

Experts "solve" mystery of Stonehenge.

I find places like Stonehenge beyond fascinating.  I can just imagine the energy you feel when you're there, a place just charged by thousands of years of people passing through.  It makes me wonder, when did Stonehenge become a mystery?  How did its original purpose get lost?  On the small scale, who was the last person to "know" what Stonehenge was all about?  What was their life like, what did they eat every day, who did they love?  On the large scale, how does something that was obviously so important to a society become obsolete to the point that no one has any clue what it's for or why it exists?  I hope to make it there one day, it's in my top 5. 

Oh, to just lay a hand on those stones and think about how they were formed, where they originated, how they were chosen, molded, hauled into place, the thought of someone at a different moment in time with their hand in the same place as mine, it just gives me chills.  I seriously just want to go up and hug one of the pillars, close my eyes and see what happens.  Feel the energy of the place course through my body.  It's just one of those places that I feel connected to for some reason, even though I've never been there.

My parents visited it in March 2006, here's a picture of my mom there, sick with a major cold, if I remember correctly, but a total trooper, as always.

I love this.

And I might buy it, or one of dozens of other fun "_____ for Obama" buttons here.

And I'd wear it to the Grateful Dead Reunion Concert for Obama if only I happened to be near Penn State on October 13.

Want to make the world a brighter place?

Here's how, from Real Simple's Guide to Happiness.  It's the little things, after all.