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You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain— no matter how smart or accomplished—they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.

Mitch Albom (via definitelydope)

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Posted 1 year ago
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The appearance of the building has created what Travers calls a “new mental geography” of the capital. For example the presence of the Shard makes suddenly obvious what every London taxi driver already knew: that the quickest way from Westminster to the City is via the South Bank.

Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at the LSE, quoted in Robert Booth’s good overview of London’s Shard: a ‘tower of power and riches’ looking down on poverty in The Guardian. (Also covered: its role as a “soft power” play by the Qataris.)

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Posted 2 years ago

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Millwall Park from the South High Walk at Mudchute Farm.

A bit higher!

The high walks are paths around and through the farm taking in each part: the stables, tracks, allotment gardens, and fields as they arrange themselves from DLR stations Mudchute & Crossharbour.

Surprisingly private and shaded in parts.