Salted Pistachio Brittle (Better Than Christmas Cookies!) | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn

This is my project for tomorrow. Should be simple…? And Dad likes pistachios.

I may be up a little late tonight working, but I’m really not sorry I made these. Easy sugar cookies, rolled in cinnamon-sugar (that is, snickerdoodle wannabes).

“The faith’s attraction differs for different Americans. At a recent public appearance by the Dalai Lama, a woman named Ellen White said it helped her “to make sense out of life” without the fear and guilt she associated with her earlier Roman Catholicism; converts also mention American Buddhism’s relative lack of hierarchy. Meditation strikes some as a daily, direct experience of the sacred absent from Sundays-only religion; others hope to use it merely to tune out the late 20th century’s frenzied multicasting or, as someone once advised, Be Here Now. Baby boomers embraced Buddhism as a means of protesting a war or widening their minds. To jaded, postmodern twentysomethings who suspect that institutions such as family, government or even reality are insubstantial, it offers assent—and a richer philosophical response than Kurt Cobain’s nihilistic Nevermind. (Remember his band’s name?) Others agree with Scorsese that “anything infused into our world today about nonviolence can only help.”

Back in 1938, a Japanese monk, noting that it took China three centuries to adopt Buddhism from India, said introducing it in America would be like holding a lotus to a rock and waiting for it to take root. It has been only 60 years, and at least one authority, Columbia professor Robert Thurman, states grimly that as far as he is concerned, a true, indigenous Buddhism doesn’t yet exist here. But others are convinced that for the first time, American Buddhism may be strong enough not only to withstand the distortions of celebrity but also to attract and hold a significant number of serious searchers. And short of a full transplanting, who would have imagined that the lotus would have offered up such a wild and confusing profusion of blooms?”

EVERY AQUISITION WEIGHS ME DOWN | Things I have learned in my life so far

from here, via Alex

This is my desktop now.

Diwali 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Today as I was walking this comic appeared in my head. I always wanted the shirt but suspected the ladies’ wouldn’t fit me, as Bella size S generally doesn’t (so according to a chart I found I am exactly average height for a twelve-year-old girl, and average weight for a thirteen-year-old, in the United States of America; I am assuming this chart is not taking obesity into consideration).

Having today spontaneously remembered it, I decided to bring it into my life. I think I am lucky, because the shirt has been discontinued. It’s only available in Men’s XL and 2XL, which, while hilariously tent-like on me, doesn’t mean the design itself isn’t there. I’m going to cut it out and sew it onto something else. I’m promising myself this.

truth and beauty bombs | a softer world

GUYS. Which hat should I get??

They’re from here:

• Etta
• Juniper
• Ruby

I want a good hat. Which one is my good hat?

I got TOMS!!!

I am avoiding more exclamation points as a matter of taste but please understand that there are MANY MANY MORE where those three came from. I have waited long for this. :D :D :D