Monday, August 24, 2009

Monday's Muse

Last week, Robin over at Cinnamon & Honey started a new meme called

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In her words, it's "your chance to share something that's currently meaningful to you... a song, a video, a poem, a book, a movie, a person... or anything that's gotten into your head and you can't get rid of." I had several ideas I was going to go with today, first being this:


It's a Vietnamese sandwich called bánh mi and it's freakin delicious. How is it inspiring? I'm inspired to have another, duh?

But. Then I ran across this picture from a story run on Boston.com last Febuary about construction workers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.


And then I watched this video.

32 comments:

  1. That made my eyes fill with tears. Thank you for sharing that. :)

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  2. Thats so cool of the construction guys. Its more than just another job to them.

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  3. How wonderful!! Great idea to immortalize those whose lives were taken by illness.

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  4. I'm with the Tiawanese porn link. That was really touching.

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  5. Who knew construction workers could be that kind - lovely!

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  6. Incredible! Thanks so much for posting (and for playing along)!
    Mr. Linky is up and a-runnin'. Come on by and sign yerself up!
    :) Robin

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  7. Teary eyed here too. Will have to try that sandwich, yum.

    P.S. That guy posting in Chinese or whatever is annoying as hell; he went back into my archive and posted on just about everything!

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  8. How lovely.

    I really really love the look of that bánh mi too. New London prides itself on its grinders and that looks like one that needs to join the club around here. YUM.

    Ellie

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  9. Sounds like a good excuse to post pictures of hot Asian women.

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  10. Very nice tribute. And the sandwich doesn't look half bad either.

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  11. It was lovely though. Thanks for sharing.

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  12. Those guys are awesome. I'm gonna have to take a trip up to Boston just to see it!

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  13. thanks for sharing that video,
    keeps you remembering that most people are kind wonderful human
    beings. Hats off to them.

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  14. Now I'm crying AND hungry. How do you DO that?

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  15. okay, who invited Suzy's chinese boyfriend?

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  16. wait, that's not the person that leaves all those comments, is it? Good. Anyway, back to the post.


    lovely. lovely. lovely.

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  17. Dammit my computer won't let me see the video. Is it really good? Would I cry? Is it all moving and inspirational and shit?

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  18. I did that shuddering cry/inhale before even hitting play. I might have to come back after I've composed myself.

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  19. Oh my God, that is so awesome. I love seeing stories like that. Thanks for sharing it with us! Great start to the week!

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  20. Sometimes we people can show how great we can be. Other times we suck.

    You are my muse sir.

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  21. Stories like that restore my faith in humanity.

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  22. That is an awesome video. It is one I have actually seen many times because they show it in New England movie theaters before collecting money for Dana Farber.

    It still always makes me cry!

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  23. Okay that was pretty cool. Great inspirations today.

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  24. OMG. That made me cry. Like weeping crying. Wow. Some people are so amazing. My faith in the society is renewed.

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  25. Awww....what a sweet sandwich.

    Oh, and the story about the building made me cry, too.

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  26. Wow, that was cool. And the sammich too, I'd dip that thing in thousand island and go to town. The sammich. Jeez.

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  27. That's one of the cutest, sweetest, most awesome things ever.

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