Yeah, these two are amazing. Sébastien Soldevila and Emilie Bonnavaud, two members of les 7 doigts de la main. This performance, I believe, won gold at the Cirque de Demain festival in 2007. :)

gabrielmansour:

Cirque de Demain – Festival Montréal.

This is just beautiful with crazy wonderful lifts. Now this is a circus I’d want to run away to and join.

(Source: youtube.com)

Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in hospice and on death row). She shares what she’s learned about compassion in the face of death and dying, and a deep insight into the nature of empathy.

(Source: ted.com)

“Paparazzi” (via greyson97)

This kid is really good!

ohheygreat:

countryandwestern:

I’d post this over on my main blog, but I only have 100 or so followers there. You guys are 1800+ strong. Usually, I don’t come in on these viral type things until they’re over 100K views, but this is only at 15,000 and it needs to reach 25,000 for the story to move on. There’s not much more I can’t stomach than animal abuse (and shiftless, gutless oil companies and…OK I can’t stomach much these days). Anyway, do me a solid, reblog this and let’s get it to the next level. I’m sure the endgame is a foregone conclusion, but still.

Thanks.

benjohannemann:

Charlie’s story continues when this video reaches 25,000 views.

Even with an actor dog it made me want to cry.