December 2009
See you in 2010. →
In just over 12 hours, I’ll be heading to the airport to escape for the weekend — to usher in a new decade in the best possible way: in a city I love with a person I love doing something I love.
Enjoy the final few days of 2009, everyone. Thanks for an interesting year, full of ups and downs. See you in the new year.
(For my full roundup of the year, and the decade, that was, read the...
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via)
“One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy...”
– Robert A. Heinlein (via)
A truth I’ve lived by for years and years.
“Join with those who sing songs, tell stories, enjoy life … because happiness is...”
– Paulo Coelho (via)
“Look at a flower until its beauty becomes part of your very soul. It will be...”
– Two Listeners (via)
“I have a fundamental problem with the idea of falling in love. It’s the nature...”
– A Hermit Philosopher (via)
“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via)
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou (via)
“Rebuild. Take stock of who you are, where you are, and what has changed about...”
– Jon Crowley
“God made spaces between our fingers so someone else could fill the gap.”
– Unknown (via)
Frank Sinatra — Have Yourself A Merry Little...
“At the end of the day, you either focus on what separates you… or what...”
– The O.C. (via)
Christmas wish. →
I’m tired of cynicism, skepticism. I’m tired of everyone assuming that when I do nice things for someone, I’m trying to get something back, or that I have ulterior motives, or that I’m building an unhealthy relationship with that person. I’m tired of people not realizing that sometimes we do things because we actually care, we actually want others to be happy. My...
Taylor Swift — Last Christmas (via)
A cover of...
Tenacity.
Via Jason Kottke:
Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author
Go ahead, read the list, laugh a bit, and then chuckle nervously when you read the character trait associated with your favorite author.
Apparently, according to this, I’m “confirmed 90’s literati.”
Of course, I was still in high school in the 90s, so any aspirations to the literati were just that, aspirations....
“File sharing is utterly unsexy. It takes no time at all to knock up a playlist...”
– Thurston Moore, Why the music cassette has never died
“Can we say that it is precisely the smallest objects — be they trumpets,...”
– Herta Müller
I bought a new purple pen, just now.
The old one ran out of ink. I’m putting the new one in my pocket.
I hope this new one is just as lucky as the last.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it....”
– Howard Thurman, on my wall
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill (via)
“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring...”
– The Dalai Lama (via)
“If there’s one thing every kid needs growing up, it’s a best friend. Someone you...”
– The Wonder Years (via)
I'm at work.
At 1am. And there’s nobody here. I’m turning up the Christmas music loud, very loud. And singing along. And yes, occasionally dancing along too.
“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.”
– Emory Austin (via)
“But here is the bottom line: we can embrace this accord, take a substantial step...”
– President Barack Obama in Copenhagen (via)
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via)
The reverse is very true: go on trips with someone you do love. Especially fun trips to a mystery city for New Year’s Eve.
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for...”
– Victor Hugo (via)
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via)
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been....”
– Eve Ensler (via)