December 2011
Firefighters let home burn over $75 fee -- again →
thegreg:logicallypositive:ilyagerner:
Firefighters stood by and watched a Tennessee house burn to the ground earlier this week because the homeowners didn’t pay the annual subscription fee for fire service.
“You could look out my mom’s trailer and see the trucks sitting at a distance,” Vicky Bell, the homeowner, said.
“Here’s the more important part of the story, letting the house burn — while,...
How Knitting Behind Bars Transformed Maryland... →
needtherapy:greaterthanlapsed:
The bit that almost made me cry:
Richy Horton, 38, served almost four years at the Pre-Release Unit and reluctantly joined KBB about 6 months before he was released. “I was like, I’m not going to that thing,” Horton says. “And then I went, and you were actually speaking to real people. People can’t really understand [that in prison] you’re completely...
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fearlesspursuit)
“It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re...”
– Agent Smith in The Matrix (via siddman)
