Remembering my lovely grandpa today. He passed away almost sixteen years ago, but you never know how long you’ll miss someone. One of my biggest regrets is that I never got to know him as an adult. I have such fond memories of the times we did get to spend, and I love everything I know about him and the life he led. I love you, Poppa. Thank you for being who you were.
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More from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, page 193.
This made me LOL over and over. Clicky clicky.
How embarrassing! They forget to put an ‘e’ at the end of ho!
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He described as formative an incident in which he claimed CIA operatives were attempting to recruit a Swiss banker to obtain secret banking information. Snowden said they achieved this by purposely getting the banker drunk and encouraging him to drive home in his car. When the banker was arrested for drunk driving, the undercover agent seeking to befriend him offered to help, and a bond was formed that led to successful recruitment. “Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world,” he says. “I realised that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good.” He said it was during his CIA stint in Geneva that he thought for the first time about exposing government secrets. But, at the time, he chose not to for two reasons. First, he said: “Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn’t feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone”. Secondly, the election of Barack Obama in 2008 gave him hope that there would be real reforms, rendering disclosures unnecessary.
—Edward Snowden (via kateoplis)
I came home one day from school after being chased by kids singing “Yellow Submarine”, and I didn’t understand why. It just seemed surreal: why are they singing that song to me? I came home and I freaked out on my dad: ‘Why didn’t you tell me you were in The Beatles?’ And he said, ‘Oh, sorry. Probably should have told you that.’
—Dhani Harrison (via considerthishippie)
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