February 2012
1 post
January 2012
6 posts
praying.
youareit:
It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.
-Mary Oliver
“Self motivation is and always will be the most important form of motivation....”
– Seth’s Blog: Run your own race
“In our brokenness, we are unlimited. And that means we are amazing.”
– Why Lying Broken in a Pile on Your Bedroom Floor is a Good Idea. ~ Julie (JC) Peters | elephant journal
“What excites is not just the prospect of having a woman a heartbeat — and four...”
– Just the Ticket - NYTimes.com
Everything is waiting for you.
Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice. You must note
the way the soap dish enables...
October 2011
10 posts
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
– Text of Steve Jobs’ Commencement address (2005)
September 2011
5 posts
6 tags
Seasonal food guides by state and province →
theveginamonologues:
Wondering what’s in season where you are? Check out this by-the-state-or-province guide.
What’s in season in Ontario: apples, beans, blueberries, beets, carrots, greens, pears, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes. We picked up grapes, kale, blueberries, potatoes and tomatillos at the market today.
August 2011
6 posts
Ask E. Jean: 25 Things Every Woman Should Know -... →
Favorite:
24. You’re spinning on a merry-go-round at no cost. It’s whirling around a star that has hitched a ride on a galaxy moving so fast in the universe you can’t even feel it. So listen to Auntie Eeee, doll. Whatever went wrong yesterday? You’ve already moved on.
50 Books That Will Make You a Better Writer
Try not to spontaneously combust over omissions and inclusions — getting flustered over an internet list of this nature is really quite silly.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/magazine/the-two-... →
I don’t get it. You either know that women own their bodies or you don’t.
“This. Is Ridiculous.
“One woman … is seen as a token, two are seen...”
– ‘Masculine Norms’: Why Working Women Find It Hard to Reach the Top - Knowledge@Wharton
“Only 12 women hold the CEO position at Fortune 500 companies.”
– Live from #BlogHer: PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi on the leadership principles that guide her | SmartBlog on Leadership
July 2011
10 posts
“The average amputee dog can hold his own against any high school track star.”
– Usain Bolt and Track and Field Records - Grantland
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it's later than... →
“Humanity is the great, unsolved mystery of the cosmos, glorious and sometimes...”
– Rabbi David Wolpe: What Is The Greatest Mystery?
Death in the Pot - Lapham’s Quarterly →
“Until the mid-1800s, there was no such thing as a toxicology report. It was a golden age of domestic murder.”
Will their be a renaissance soon please?
June 2011
7 posts
“you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to...”
– Joseph Wood on Poetry and Life | Open Letters Monthly - an Arts and Literature Review
Finding good in bad girls - The Independent →
This may be the worst article I have read this year. I can’t see the point they’re trying to make, but perhaps I’m distracted by all the typos. Or, you know, the horrible writing.
“Both liars and artists refuse to accept the tyranny of reality.”
– ARE ARTISTS LIARS? | More Intelligent Life
“It can be found in high art and literature (Polonius’s “To thine own self be...”
– In Search of the True Self - NYTimes.com
“This could be the start of something big.” This is the best song Bruce...”
– Bruce Springsteen News: brucespringsteen.net
“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone...”
– Paul Verlaine (via bumlord)
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
5 posts
