December 2011
10 posts
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An Educated Person - 3 Characteristics →
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Good bad
All bad things are actually good things, because they put you right in Empathy’s shoes and help you understand others better.
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“You know, like he wants to tell you he loves you but he can’t? So he asks...”
– S. on her father
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Technology
An incidental experiment reveals computers rob me away from real reading and writing, i.e. the act of reading and reflecting upon that writing, the habit of observing and writing, the sanctum of unadulterated reflection, one at a time. My writer’s notebook was never more filled when I had nothing but a pen for eight days in a foreign environment.
Time for a conscious revamp.
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Inchoate
You don’t pen something surreal. Like the Romantic spirit, you are afraid it will flee upon its lexical immortalisation. Worse, you are afraid its patina of perfection will meet the friction of reality,
and fade.
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Marketing
The key to most things is marketing and the presentation and organisation that come with it, as well as archiving and portfolio-making. Most times, however, real artists and teachers obsessed with their art and lessons have no real time for such purposes - not when they are the proverbial ones struggling with dough, manpower and resources, not when they cohere with the unstructured, bohemian...
“Swallow your feelings. Scoop them neatly and don’t let them spill or leave a...”
– Swallow Your Feelings - Julie Beck (via creatingaquietmind)
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
– Oprah Winfrey (via creatingaquietmind)
“December
The white dove of winter
sheds its first
fine feathers;
they...”
– Linda Pastan, from “The Months” (via bookoasis)