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Jeremiah

Start simple. Dream big. Do good. Be well.
Apr 5 '13

Lawrence Lessig: We the People and the Republic we must reclaim

Feb 14 '13

Love is like an orchid

I was walking back from lunch and came across a floral shop. It had several beautiful orchids for sale. Being Valentine’s Day, I justified an impulse buy.

I then walked into a coffee shop for a post-lunch latte. The barista saw me set the orchid down on the counter and said, “I think it’s going to be a good day,” with a smile and bow of her head as she let her eye contact linger flirtatiously.

“It’s optimism that ensures it will be,” I replied.

I love orchids, but they’re fickle plants. They’re easy to keep alive, however, they require perfect conditions to bloom.

When I was in Hawaii last week, I saw more types of orchids than I had ever seen before just growing in the wild. I thought of the potted orchid from my and Arthur’s wedding sitting in our kitchen window sill with healthy green leaves but no flowers to delight.

I think love is like an orchid. When we meet someone special, love just blooms naturally in the wild. When we enter into a relationship, we are transplanted and domesticated. To keep blooming, we have to create the perfect conditions. It takes work, but each season’s blooms are more plentiful and beautiful.

Today is my 9th Valentine’s Day with Arthur. He’s a great gardener.

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Jan 5 '13
The Wall Street Journal thinks the average single parent with two children makes $260k a year. Uh…

The Wall Street Journal thinks the average single parent with two children makes $260k a year. Uh…

Jan 5 '13
“You think that I think that an artist’s job is to speak the truth. An artist’s job is to captivate you for however long as we’ve asked for your attention. If we stumble into truth, we got lucky, and I don’t get to decide what truth is.”
— Tabatha Fortis, The West Wing, S3E16

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Dec 15 '12
Gender normative gift giving with Amazon.

Gender normative gift giving with Amazon.

Dec 8 '12
“As is the case with many propositions, the voters may have been fooled by the governor and his allies who aggressively pitched it as a way to “save education in our state.” In fact, the money from Prop 30 simply replaces money the governor redirected from education to other priorities in his 2013 budget. So a more honest and fair characterization of Proposition 30 is a general purpose tax hike in the state which already has the highest income tax rates in the nation.”
— What Proposition 30 Means for California’s Entrepreneurs

Nov 25 '12

JPMorgan Chase & Co’s Thanksgiving Day message:

Let’s give thanks for an idea—a grand idea called ‟America.” The idea that if you work hard, if you have a dream, if you work with your neighbors, you can do most anything.

It’s led to other ideas: like liberty and rock n’ roll to free markets, free enterprise, and free refills. It put a man on the moon and a phone in your pocket.

Our country’s gone through a lot over the centuries and a half, but this idea isn’t fragile. When times gets tough, it rallies us as one.

Every day more people believe in the American idea and when they do, the dream comes true.

We’re grateful to be a part of it.

Nov 12 '12
Monkeybrains, a local ISP, has one of the best San Francisco neighborhood maps I’ve seen.

Monkeybrains, a local ISP, has one of the best San Francisco neighborhood maps I’ve seen.

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Nov 10 '12
“No, frankly, you should be more presumptuous. This is New York. It’s for dreamers. It’s for people like you who are just starting out and for people like me who very much want to reinvent themselves. No, you should dream. You should dream very, very big and then you should work incredibly hard and make sure you do everything in your power to make it happen.”
— Glee, S4E3

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Oct 28 '12
“The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.”
— Frank Warren