May 2012
9 posts
“I don’t have enough time/money/people/experience.” stop whining....”
– Rework
Making a Living
“Hate was just a failure of imagination.” — Graham Greene
Re-appropriate is a word that I stole from my friend David Dark. He’d stolen it from a guy named Jeff Tweedy. It’s a good word to steal. In fact, of all the words I’ve stolen in my lifetime I feel the least remorse for lifting this one. Re-appropriate: to seize and reassign. It’s very definition...
“The Bible is the story of how God gets back what was always His in the first...”
fa/_ get back ^P…fa/_ get back ^P…fa/_ get back ^P
Critics
Here is a review of Moby Dick from 1851:
“This is an ill-compounded mixture of romance and matter-of-fact. The idea of a connected and collected story has obviously visited and abandoned its writer again and again in the course of composition. The style of his tale is in places disfigured by mad (rather than bad) English; and its catastrophe is hastily, weakly, and obscurely managed. We have...
April 2012
40 posts
“One hundred percent of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.”
– Wayne Gretzky
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are...”
– Gary Provost (via qmsd) This might be my favourite quote on writing ever. (via bdoing)
“Ok, Jesus turned 600 litres of water into wine. That’s 800 bottles of...”
Marie Ponsot, who turns 91 this month, still treads with sprightly step as she delivers her incomparable wisdom.
- Knopf Poetry Team
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A Rune, Interminable
Low above the moss a sprig of scarlet berries
soon eaten or blackened
tells time.
Go to a wedding
as to a funeral:
bury the loss.
Go to a funeral
as to a wedding:
...
“Tra il dire e il fare c’e’ di mezzo il mare”
– Translated — Between talk and doing, there is a sea. It’s a very far way.
A Poem-A-Day Celebration: Still Life →
celebratepoetry:
Poem submission by Tricia Callahan
This is still life.
She is still born. Still, she was born. This is still life.
Her phantom flutters your belly and you no longer need to sleep on your side,
so still, you lie
flat on your back, palms on skin are flat, for the first time.
Willing and wallowing and wailing.
Defeated, deflated. With hallowed eyes, we’re willing your crawl back to...
puttoflight:
I believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time…if he can sink a man’s mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. - Donald Miller
“Let’s get real. Some people just want to get rich so they can have power...”
March 2012
30 posts
Perpetual Ocean →
[Watch in HD, full-screen] So, if I drop my message in a bottle in the water from Australia, it will end up…
Wind Map →
Kinda beautiful…in a geeky way