March 2010
February 2010
“For your unique TV commercials — for companies like Tim Hortons —...”
– Brian Williams, A thank-you note to Canada
“The Vancouver Games have awoken a new Canada, one that aims high, risks failure...”
– A gold medal for Vancouver Games, The Globe and Mail
“It’s a game played by flaneurs walking the digital streets.”
– danah boyd on ChatRoulette
3 tags
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined...”
– George Eliot (via)
“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”
– Zadie Smith (via)
“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get...”
– Pauline R. Kezer (via)
“The best portions of a good man’s life:
His little, nameless, unremembered...”
– William Wordsworth (via)
“There’s something exquisite about boredom. Like melancholy and its darker cousin...”
– Colin Bisset, La Vie D’Ennui (via)
“Sir, more than kisses,
letters mingle souls;
or, thus friends absent speak.”
– John Donne
Spent the afternoon writing letters.
Welcoming. →
As I watch the Olympics taking place in Vancouver right now, and hear all the reports about the beauty of my country and the warmth and friendliness of the people there, I am reminded of my first day of school in Canada, when I moved there many years ago from New York.
From that first day, I knew that Canada was not just a place full of friendly people, but a place where diversity and difference...
“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters.
You can’t reread a...”
– Liz Carpenter
Spending the evening, tonight, rereading letters.
“Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do...”
– Emmanuel Swedenborg (via)
Gangrene and broken hearts.
Katie shared this wonderful little story on her site today, and I just had to share it in its entirety. Hope she doesn’t mind.
I jammed my thumb once… a game of Twister turned wrestling match turned KT crying at the bottom of a dog pile.
I became convinced that my thumb was going to get infected, develop gangrene, and I was either going to die or lose my left arm. I had dreams about...
“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have...”
– Roger Ebert (via)
“I have returned to El Bulli to dine twice since the summer of 2000. Each time I...”
– Grant Achatz
WatchJamie Oliver: Teach every child about food.
I’m fat.
Don’t worry, it’s okay. I’ve known about it for a while, so don’t be afraid of offending me.
I’m not going to blame genetics, or the glucocorticoids I’ve been on since my early childhood, or any external factors — the fact is that I’m severely overweight. I made bad decisions with regards to...
Love's Secret
Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind doth move
Silently, invisibly.
I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.
Ah! she did depart!
Soon after she was gone from me,
A traveller came by,
Silently, invisibly:
He took her with a sigh.
William Blake
Time to celebrate.
Whether you’re celebrating Family Day, Presidents Day, Valentine’s Day, my birthday (a week early), Chinese New Year, Mardi Gras, or just being alive, find someone you love this weekend and celebrate something with them.
That’s what I’ll be doing. And I couldn’t be happier.
“To love completely
the smile of your someone else
must always come first.”
– Tyler Knott Gregson
“Love is always bestowed as a gift―freely, willingly, and without expectation. We...”
– Leo F. Buscaglia