August 2011
3 posts
5 tags
“Stocking pantries is a finite answer to an infinite problem: Life is precious...”
– Monica Hesse, in her story on the stockpile of hurricane food most of us suddenly don’t need. (via washingtonpoststyle)
4 tags
July 2011
8 posts
"You hear more complaints about the summer because... →
If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.
—William James via Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life
: The Search →
kevans:
The Paris Review, 1969
INTERVIEWER
Faulkner has said of writers, “All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.” Would you put yourself in this category?
E.B. WHITE
Yes. My friend, John McNulty, had a title for a popular song he always intended to write and never did: “Keep your…
June 2011
4 posts
August 2009
1 post
a gem →
June 2009
10 posts
Jody's diary extracts (I have such a fun family to...
“It was my birthday my mom dad and 3 sisters were sitting at the table. my family started lafing so harde i all most fell out of my char. we had a grat time”
“it was such a mess. me and 2 of my sisters corinne and bridget were playing in the storidg closet. are dad was downstarse and we wer lieing on the shelfs of the staredg closet and moving evry thing around and haveing so...
“One characteristic of the kind of American food we love is exuberance. And in...”
– says Mr. Stern to the WSJ. I would KILL to eat huge quantities of exuberant, American food right now.
'case, you're wondering ...
I come home in 18 days.
so I'm in my mid-20's now
I wish I could provide some profound thoughts on this development, but I just feel funny bout the whole deal.
Yesterday, riding my bike through Olivet, wearing my jean cut-offs and big black sunglasses, I saw ten-year old Stephanie standing on the sidewalk, eyes big and horrified. Funny to think on the difference between who you thought you’d be and who you are …
But 10-year old...
“Clearly, though, whoever denied Ms. Daeron’s visa did not understand what...”
– The NY Times
Spent yesterday biking through the countryside ...
May 2009
23 posts
“i felt like i was living your dream: carolina inn, top of the hill, weaver...”
– ” matthew g.
Brittany
My world might have 8 wonders now.
The Secret Advantage Of Being Short : NPR →
“Because for the taller person it takes a tenth of a second longer for the toe-touch to travel up the foot, the ankle, the calf, the thigh, the backbone to the brain, the brain waits that extra beat to announce a ‘NOW!’ That tall person will live his sensory life on a teeny delay (at least as regards toe-touching). This, of course, could apply to all kinds of lower-extremity...
Sleeping and eating - who does it best? →
These are my people (thanks, Matthew)!
Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath:... →
Re. the feisty underdog convo. Jodes, this is for you.
a desk view →
I predict big things for this blogger. A must-read.
Seven Wonders
If you could choose the seven wonders of your world, what would you choose? I would choose (from limited experience. Ask me again in ten years!) — the Loire River, the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Sahara Desert, Paris, Chapel Hill, the Hundertwasser Museum (really! Along with all other museums devoted to one artist) and parks everywhere.
“Sasha and Malia aren’t here tonight because they’re grounded. You...”
– Barak Obama (via gawker)
“My mama told me go to school, get your...
"Not in top 50,000 blogs"
“Tumblarity,” 0. yikes, Tumblr, I didn’t need to know this!
“Fear of failure can be a motivator or an inhibitor. The latter is crippling, and ultimately leads to a life of missed opportunities. That’s why Teddy Roosevelt’s most famous dictum, sadly wasted on the French during a speech at the Sorbonne, was praise for the person ‘who comes up short again and again,’ praise for the man ‘who fails while daring greatly, so that his place...
Andrew Bird in Montmartre →
The streets of Paris and good music — nothing better, I think.
I agree
with Charles M. Blow’s opinion on why we are Defecting to our Faith.
“As the nonreligious movement picks up steam, it needs to do a better job of appealing to the ethereal part of our human exceptionalism — that wondrous, precious part where logic and reason hold little purchase, where love and compassion reign. It’s the part that fears loneliness, craves companionship and needs...
April 2009
33 posts
a couple spring-shots
and more to come! as I’ve spent this vacation enjoying France.