October 2009
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for...”
– Gloria Naylor
September 2009
Off to Istanbul.
Be back in a few weeks. Try not to forget me.
“Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We’ll smell smoke then, and feel...”
– Thomas Wolfe (via)
“I don’t wish to touch hearts. I don’t even want to affect minds very much. What...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, as quoted by Arthur Crystal (via)
“You don’t throw away your books when you buy a computer. You keep both. The...”
– Stephen Fry (via)
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Lonely Shuffle?
Decided to plug in my headphones and listen to some music on my walk to work this morning. I pressed the shuffle button; here’s the list of songs that my iPhone decided to play during my walk:
Scared of Lonely (Beyoncé)
Lonely, Lonely (Feist)
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams)
So Lonely (Mariah Carey)
Another Lonely Day (Ben Harper)
Of all the songs on my...
“Point is, what’s so wonderful is that every one of these flowers has a specific...”
– John Laroche (via)
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will...”
– Daniel Burnham (via)
“People no longer travel on horseback but some go to a riding school; motor...”
– Umberto Eco
“Into a pint glass, doubles of the following are poured: gin, whisky, rum, port...”
– Anthony Burgess’ recipe for the Hangman’s Blood, a drink that sounds absolutely ridiculous and incredibly potent.
WatchBarack Obama knows how to act in front of a camera — consistent smile, consistent pose, consistent charm oozing out of him.
Though I have to admit, after seeing all these photos in succession, he does look a little bit like a cardboard cut-out. (via)
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Three things...
…to smile about this morning:
Gus on my desktop.
Ducks in the water.
Pastries in my tummy.
Wisdom: “Thoughts become things, choose the good ones.”
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“We are two feathers
off of the same lonely bird
floating together.”
– Tyler Knott Gregson
“There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that...”
– T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (via)
“I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a...”
– Joan Didion
WatchJarbas Agnelli creates a musical piece based on the positions of birds on a telephone wire. Wonderfully creative.
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Three things...
…to smile about this morning:
The autumnal equinox.
Hiding notes in secret places.
Reading old letters from wonderful friends.
Autumn has officially arrived. I’m ready for some crisp, redolent air.
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Redolent.
Dreams
fitful, fantastic
woke me from sleep
smiling, laughing
looking across canyons
to find her perfectly-shut eyelids
looking out the window
to find masked creatures of the night.
I tugged at the corner of the duvet
shivering
but enjoying the sweet banana breeze.
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“It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves...”
– Roald Dahl, The Witches (via)
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“The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something...”
– Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
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Three things...
…to smile about this morning:
Memories of weekends back home with people I love.
Big statement win by the Jets.
The leaves changing color on the trees around my apartment.
The summer officially wraps up today. I’ve been waiting for the fall.
WatchWho would have ever thought that the anticipation over one simple marshmallow could be so adorable and agonizing all at the same time? Super cute video of kids being super cute. (via)
“I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating. I don’t care if...”
– Steven Soderbergh (via)
“I’d like to advance a hypothesis: awesomeness is the new innovation.”
– Umair Haque, The Awesomeness Manifesto