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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. - Mark Twain

‎"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it". -Julia Child

©anacissapinto Click link for full image collection - Morocco 2010 (if link doesn't work, copy and paste) http://albums.phanfare.com/slideshow.aspx?i=1&db=1&pw=aMgbh4ci&a_id=4921201

My Bubby's cappuccino loves me back anacissapinto Location: Bubby's

"The World has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life"- Oscar Wilde

Yes. Bubby's cappuccino is a work of art. And their extremely delicious and well served brunch dishes are awesome. No wonder people love going there. If you are looking for a great place to have brunch in NY, try Bubby's 120 Hudson Street New York, NY 10013 (212) 219-0666 Subway: Franklin Street - IRT anacissapinto

Interesting article by Roger Cohen (NYT) The Real Threat to America By ROGER COHEN LONDON — The full-body scanners and intrusive pat-downs that are fast becoming the norm at U.S. airports — just in time for Thanksgiving! — do at least provide the answer to what should be done with Osama bin Laden if he’s ever captured: Rotate him in perpetuity through this security hell, “groin checks” and all. He’ll crumple fast and wonder that 19 young guys in four planes could so warp the nervous system of the world’s most powerful nation that it has empowered zealous bureaucrats to trample on the liberties for which Americans give thanks this week. In his stupor, arms raised as his body gets “imaged,” arms outstretched through “enhanced” patting, bin Laden might also wonder at just how stupid it is to assemble huge crowds at the Transportation Security Administration’s airport checkpoints, as if hundreds of people on planes were the only hundreds of peop...

‘ Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.” -August Wilson

"There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again" Margaret Elizabeth Sansgter

click the picture to enlarge image Morning after sand boarding under the stars...or at least trying to! Renata did very well... (in the picture: our camp and our cook & musician, sweet Ahmid)

Waking up in the desert is such a treat!

(the noise you hear is the sound of birds!) Riad Kitula is more like a home, right in the steps of a souk. To get to Kitula you will need very carefully explained instructions. The Riad is situated in a maze on tiny aisles, and the entrance has no signs at all, just a door. Riad Kitula is an historic riad that was part of a Kalif's palace built around 1750. The place is beautiful, you pass through the threshold of Riad Kitula and you are transported into an inner sanctuary of flowing fountains, cool shade, and the rustle of palm, banana, orange and lemon trees. This is a spectacular riad, that truly feels like a home, with an understated mix of European and Moroccan décor. From now on, I know that I have a 'home' to stay at when I come to Marrakech. Riad Kitula Phone +44 (0) 207 352 0909 (Danny) +44 (0) 771 020 8933 Address Marrakech Medina, Morocco Website / Bookings www.kitula.net Click here: Riad Kitula E-mail info@kitula.net NOTE: They don't accept credit cards...ca...

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine

Let's pretend it's 11pm so tomorrow there will be no jet lag Location: In transit

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Last night I tried a delicious sake: Wakatake Onikoroshi Ginjo Sake Light, smooth and rich type. Very clean, round and quite impressive in the mouth. Little hint of watermelon. Wakatake History Established in 1832, from Shizuoko prefecture. Located along the Ohi river, in the center of Japan, flowing to the Pacific Ocean from Japan’s southern Alps; the town of Shimada once prospered as one of the lodging towns of the 53 post stations of the Tokaido. The original Wakatake Onikoroshi sake is historically famous for having comforted many weary travelers crossing the Ohi river. For years, since the brewery’s foundation, they have lived through the rise and fall of history with the people in the town, and have enjoyed their hospitality. Although there were several breweries in the town at that time, due to its good-quality water, Ohmuraya shuzojo brewery is the only one remaining now. They continue doing their best to convey one of the most important traditional industries of Japan to the n...

“ There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction ”- Winston Churchill

Petrobras e Barbosa Lima Editores têm o prazer de convidar para o coquetel de lançamento do livro Zélio: 50 ANOS DE UMA AVENTURA VISUAL Dia 16 de Novembro de 2010 18:30 -21:30h Livraria Cultura - Av. Paulista, 2076 - Conjunto Nacional

Bom projeto: Você acessa o site http://www.doepalavras.com.br/ (in english: http://www.doepalavras.com.br/en/) Escreva uma mensagem de otimismo, curta (como twitter) e ela aparece no telão para pacientes que estão fazendo o tratamento – na sala de quimioterapia. Write words of encouragement and willpower to be playing on a big screen in hospitals for Cancer patients around the world.

“ What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. ”- Peric les

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. -Joseph Addison

I received this notification today (Who knew, he is back, and he is following me!)

With what comedy team did Salvador Dali collaborate on a motion picture screenplay? anacissapinto

This delightful record by Bill Evans and the wonderful Toots Thielemans was recorded in 1978 and is the first Evans release to feature bassist extraordinaire Marc Johnson. This is an amazing album and some of Evans' most inspired later-period playing. Evans's piano and Thielemans's harmonica are mellow and meditative. Evans piano blends beautifully with Toot's warm melodiscism, and the two jazz masters are in rare form throughout the album. "I do it for love is my favorite song." Check out this record. If you like jazz like I do, you will love it.

This beauty of a car was parked on 7th Avenue on the corner of 16th Street. I stopped my bike and asked the driver if I could take some pictures. He was very nice, and came out of the car. The driver told me that the car was parked in a garage for almost 30 years! It use to belong to a doctor that passed away, and the family members didn't really care to use the car, so they just left it in the garage. Good think this guy found it and bought it. He brought the car back to life. Such a beautiful automobile!

For the month of November, artist Marc Horowitz will live his life through the advice of strangers. http://theadviceofstrangers.co m/

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. - Francis Bacon

I'm in love with Prager's work Here's a text from The Photography Post Photographer Alex Prager Turns Director With This 50s Chiller The setting: 1960s Los Angeles. Inside a phone booth stands a beautiful woman wearing the portentous femme fatale uniform of red lipstick and high heels. Bright and eerie, it’s picture-perfection. In her first short film, LA-based photographer Alex Prager is going for pure, cinematic melodrama, hoping to catch just one emotion—despair—through her chilling juxtaposition of dreamy Americana aesthetics and back-story brimming with overstated tragedy. Set to a score by composer Ali Helnwein and starring model and actress Bryce Dallas Howard, the film takes its cues from the opening of Charles Laughton’s Night of the Hunter (1955), and the Hans Christian Andersen-inspired 1948 ballet The Red Shoes. According to Prager, Despair was conceived as a living, full-sensory version of her photographic work, which has previously been exhibited at M+B Galler...

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. - Groucho Marx

©anacissapinto So nice to meet you two tonight. Such beauties! Ride soon?

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step" - Lao Tzu

©anacissapinto A 1955 Chrysler Imperial blinked at me on the streets today. What a beauty.

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Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. - Hannah More

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A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. - Coco Chanel