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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>I’m a journalist/writer trying to hold onto the idealist that I used to be before I started reading too much news. 

This is my break, my creative hide-out where I’ll post whatever catches my eyes, ears and heart.</description><title>Beautiful World</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @sirilinn)</generator><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>nevver:

I am here, or elsewhere.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ff1a8ea80a74ad43525d90c4905dc957/tumblr_mmahj7lrbK1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Joe Webb&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e421788ce21986b1563b7ee55e0deb54/tumblr_mmahj7lrbK1qz6f9yo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Joe Webb&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/310332f67a4df30828f0e787e0eeb21b/tumblr_mmahj7lrbK1qz6f9yo3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Joe Webb&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/49616426843/i-am-here-or-elsewhere" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;nevver&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hangupcontemporary.com/affiliated-artists/joe-webb"&gt;I am here, or elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/49732488999</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/49732488999</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 20:20:24 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>nevver:

“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ce23ef872554829b75909c30e7d5332d/tumblr_mmakrbQzYs1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/49621529349/give-me-two-hours-a-day-of-activity-and-ill" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;nevver&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take &lt;a href="http://artblart.com/2013/05/04/exhibition-arnold-newman-masterclass-at-the-harry-ransom-center-the-university-of-texas-at-austin/"&gt;the other twenty-two in dreams&lt;/a&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/49732415422</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/49732415422</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 20:19:27 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqls9vx7uB1qh6hioo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/49732263186</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/49732263186</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 20:17:31 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"And when I asked you how you’d been, I meant I missed you more than I’ve ever missed anything..."</title><description>“And when I asked you how you’d been, I meant I missed you more than I’ve ever missed anything before.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Iain Thomas (via &lt;a href="http://coffeemaps.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;coffeemaps&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/49732099335</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/49732099335</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 20:15:25 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>2wentysixletters:

Typewriter Series #30</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7155237cd74b121cf9f03e3cab63dad6/tumblr_mmb729qUWv1rxj7o8o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2wentysixletters.tumblr.com/post/49655790955/typewriter-series-30" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;2wentysixletters&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Typewriter Series #30&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/49731996775</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/49731996775</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 20:14:09 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>nevver:

Lessons from a Dog</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1608227591e5f156b1d181dd2d6c951f/tumblr_mmcfkcQF3A1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Patrick Moberg&#13;
patrickmoberg.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7e5f7e82888fe50841b199f5bd806ed1/tumblr_mmcfkcQF3A1qz6f9yo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Patrick Moberg&#13;
patrickmoberg.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c200934dade3c9da3c3d1aefcd340411/tumblr_mmcfkcQF3A1qz6f9yo4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Patrick Moberg&#13;
patrickmoberg.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/adaf45dadc0f1b612d91f70ae8a92ab0/tumblr_mmcfkcQF3A1qz6f9yo3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Patrick Moberg&#13;
patrickmoberg.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/28094b3c6d027fcff92b48291ccb6589/tumblr_mmcfkcQF3A1qz6f9yo6_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Patrick Moberg&#13;
patrickmoberg.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fc4ee1288c241a4b9be0ca365afc6e6d/tumblr_mmcfkcQF3A1qz6f9yo7_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Patrick Moberg&#13;
patrickmoberg.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9b93a3302fac64c1bd6e3e1791aa6898/tumblr_mmcfkcQF3A1qz6f9yo5_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Patrick Moberg&#13;
patrickmoberg.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/49716622986/lessons-from-a-dog" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;nevver&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.patrickmoberg.com/lessons-from-a-dog/"&gt;Lessons from a Dog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/49731537127</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/49731537127</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 20:08:12 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m53h9dCWGo1rxgnsuo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/49731360327</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/49731360327</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 20:05:54 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>drown-yourfears:


this is so beautiful
</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/00359b955d17476187e13ffd26f87a75/tumblr_mi25jfS6Pv1rssvlfo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://drown-yourfears.tumblr.com/post/47067085324/this-is-so-beautiful"&gt;drown-yourfears&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;this is so beautiful&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47570557280</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47570557280</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:37:28 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b37c37e79b09ca7474140d415f571a34/tumblr_mkynquvFgA1qe31lco1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e30fb4e1161b5b7d5bc3235040ae9846/tumblr_mkynquvFgA1qe31lco2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47570390924</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47570390924</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:35:23 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>rigor samsa</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/47508933045/rigor-samsa" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;dictionaryofobscuresorrows&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;n.&lt;/em&gt; a kind of psychological exoskeleton that can protect you from pain and contain your anxieties, but always ends up cracking under pressure or hollowed out by time—which grows back again and again until you develop a more sophisticated interior structure, held up by a strong and flexible spine, built less like a fortress than a cluster of treehouses.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47570163727</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47570163727</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:32:32 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>photojojo:

Alison Scarpulla is making waves on Flickr with her...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c4ccd41c7a92107fcc445631da4c9b20/tumblr_mkoytqNHpI1qz7ymyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/35fdca747a003c47040015615489adcb/tumblr_mkoytqNHpI1qz7ymyo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tumblr.photojojo.com/post/47556282492/alison-scarpulla-is-making-waves-on-flickr-with" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;photojojo&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="name" id="yui_3_7_3_3_1365012187650_1091"&gt;&lt;a href="https://secure.flickr.com/people/aliscarpulla/"&gt;Alison Scarpulla&lt;/a&gt; is making waves on Flickr with her experimental style of photography. She uses the handy &lt;a href="http://content.photojojo.com/diy/friendly-double-exposures/"&gt;double exposure&lt;/a&gt; technique to add layers of color in her magnificent portraits. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="name"&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/aliscarpulla/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check This Photostream For Brilliant Experimental Photography&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="name"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;small&gt;via &lt;a href="http://weandthecolor.com/photographic-artworks-by-alison-scarpulla/23819"&gt;We and the Color&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47569328243</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47569328243</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:22:06 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>newyorker:


In March of last year, Diana Matar joined her...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/db7aa1b446b1fa969d1875a31472edf6/tumblr_mkqu8girzy1qav5oho1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a862a288c61bad5bcae5a201b39c7abe/tumblr_mkqu8girzy1qav5oho2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/db6c5adea79eb65fa7c3bc5caf739847/tumblr_mkqu8girzy1qav5oho3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/56c21fbd7d53b87445ac0794b42dddba/tumblr_mkqu8girzy1qav5oho4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://newyorker.tumblr.com/post/47125364444/in-march-of-last-year-diana-matar-joined-her" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;newyorker&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;In March of last year, &lt;a href="http://www.dianamatar.com/"&gt;Diana Matar&lt;/a&gt; joined her husband, Hisham, when he returned to his homeland of Libya. This was Hisham’s first time in Libya since his family left, in 1979, when he was eight years old, and he writes about the trip in his &lt;a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/04/08/130408fa_fact_matar"&gt;piece&lt;/a&gt; in the magazine this week. “What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?” he asks at the beginning of the article.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Libya was the place Hisham had to leave as a boy,” writes Diana, “it was the country that had kidnapped his father and incarcerated many family members. Personally and viscerally, it was a place that inspired fear in me, renewed every time Hisham wrote about his past or criticized the dictatorship.” Diana had never been to Libya, and in the course of the four weeks they spent together there, Diana “met Hisham’s extended family, saw the landscape he grew up in, and dipped my toes in the sea he loved as a boy. I was moved the country’s natural beauty and the tenderness and vibrancy of its people.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;—Elissa Curtis.&lt;/strong&gt; Here is a selection of Diana’s photographs of the journey: &lt;a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/04/return-to-libya-one-familys-journey.html#slide_ss_0=2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://nyr.kr/10C5pug"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nyr.kr/10C5pug"&gt;http://nyr.kr/10C5pug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47178329123</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47178329123</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:38:20 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/921791f187f6053c768d2696fc5a821e/tumblr_mkq0aaJq971qzr04eo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47178269606</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47178269606</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:36:25 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>nevver:

Roger Ebert</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/57b3fd91c7aff4576f68793bdea7b421/tumblr_mkr1zfWhmS1qzprlbo1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/47168152233/roger-ebert" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;nevver&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://kateoplis.tumblr.com/post/47134427583/roger-ebert" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;Roger Ebert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47178193624</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47178193624</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:34:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"Beauty has a lot to do with character."</title><description>“Beauty has a lot to do with character.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Kevyn Aucoin (via &lt;a href="http://rainydaysandblankets.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;rainydaysandblankets&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47178159776</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47178159776</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:32:55 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>vacants:

not the same by ferula- on Flickr.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e161d5553a4cf7d60cd9764cf46a16a6/tumblr_mkrqtjLCjF1qfaioqo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://vacants.tumblr.com/post/47175369694" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;vacants&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61219735@N05/7210808050/" title="not the same"&gt;not the same&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61219735@N05/"&gt;ferula-&lt;/a&gt; on Flickr.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47178132451</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47178132451</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:32:05 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those..."</title><description>“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Salvador Plascencia (via &lt;a href="http://likeafieldmouse.com/" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;likeafieldmouse&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47178122337</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/47178122337</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:31:46 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful."</title><description>“You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Gustave Flaubert (via &lt;a href="http://paynesbay.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;paynesbay&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/46151638858</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/46151638858</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 07:11:42 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."</title><description>“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Khalil Gibran (via &lt;a href="http://blue-voids.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;blue-voids&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/45409887869</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/45409887869</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:02:27 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>‘MILLIONAIRES’ BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;no faces&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;no faces&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;at all&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;laughing at nothing—&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;let me tell you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;I have drunk in skid row rooms with&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;imbecile winos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;whose cause was better&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;whose eyes still held some light&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;whose voices retained some sensibility,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;and when the morning came&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;we were sick but not ill,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;poor but not deluded,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;and we stretched in our beds and rose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;in the late afternoons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;like millionaires.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8212;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;One of those days. x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/45037421140</link><guid>http://sirilinn.tumblr.com/post/45037421140</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:44:06 -0400</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
