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Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’
Looks So Easy
Posted in Likes, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, creativity, inspiration, woodworking on June 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »
History, Today
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, history, inspiration, Thoughts on June 6, 2022| Leave a Comment »
“They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.”
— From President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s official address announcing the D-Day invasion
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Good Things
Posted in Food and..., tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, creativity, home, inspiration, Thoughts on June 4, 2022| 1 Comment »
Should I have spent my day writing? Maybe.
What did I do instead? I made bread, lemon curd, braided lemon bread and baked milk. Went for a walk. Staked the Joe Pye weed. Stared at the clouds. Deadheaded the dandelions and filled up the bird bath and rooted butterfly weed. In short, good things.
Works for me.
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How to Thursday
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, Fiction, genre fiction, inspiration, Nebula Awards, sff, Writers, writing on May 26, 2022| Leave a Comment »
I have apparently forgotten how to Thursday and my schedule is all awry. While I get myself sorted out, here are the Nebula Award winners:
2021 Nebula Awards Winners – Locus Online
As mentioned in a previous post, some of the nominees are free-to-read. The short story winner is open access (and is told primarily through its 93! footnotes):
“Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/21)
Enjoy!
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Ours to Carry
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, hope, inspiration, Thoughts on May 25, 2022| Leave a Comment »
“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
We can do better. We must do better.
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Memory Is a Funny Thing
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, creativity, inspiration, memory, Thoughts on May 18, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Funny how things stick with you. Like most people, I think, I tend to make mental notes about tasks to complete, ideas to develop, or things to add to the shopping list. Apparently that process knows no temporal bounds.
While prepping a list for Costco today I scrolled past a Lite-Brite and immediately thought, “I want one of those.” I don’t actually need one, or you know, not really. But I do remember wanting one as a child. My neighbor had one and I loved all the brightly-colored bulbs and the sheer imaginative flexibility. Like an Etch-a-Sketch, creatively speaking, only with dots instead of lines.
Apparently some part of me never forgot.
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Tuesday, It Is
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, artists, creativity, genre fiction, inspiration, sff, star wars, The Mandalorian on May 10, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Another Tuesday, another day when I am both inspired to reach dramatic new heights* and, after an intensive tour of the data mines, reduced to the mental status of a child. How appropriate, then, that today we have a Baby Yoda coloring book by the talented Martin Gee.
The Unofficial Baby Yoda Coloring Book
Enjoy!
* A girl can dream.
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Lewis Hamilton and Me
Posted in Entertainment, Likes, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, Formula One, inspiration, role models, Thoughts on May 7, 2022| Leave a Comment »
I am new to Formula One, or really, to any sport fandom. I tend to get emotional about the things I care about, and I have done my level best to avoid the crushing sense of disappointment one feels when one wants something deeply, and does not get it. Elections are hard for me. Wanting things in general can be a challenge, and investing in outcomes over which I have no influence? Rough.
Which is why it’s a big deal for me to join Team Hamilton. He’s worth it.
Why? It’s not the winning. Ok, not only the winning. And it’s not just the fact that he reminds me of my favorite brother. It’s excellence. Hamilton is good at what he does, yes, but he has taken to winning while retaining a sense of the larger picture.
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Again, I’m new to the sport so it’s possible that I missed more formative, brasher years, but since I’ve been watching what I see is this: support for his team, especially those who are often unsung, support for worthy causes, good sportsmanship, and generally using his platform and profile for good.
Lewis is a 7-time world champion, of course, tied with Michael Schumacher to be the winningest F1 driver ever, but he also acts like it.
As I dipped my toe into the F1 waters last year, Mr Man asked what I thought of the up-and-coming driver Verstappen. “Meh,” I said. “Why?” he asked. “He looks like he could win the championship.” True, I said, but I like Lewis. He is considerate to reporters and kind to fans, doesn’t project the sense of entitlement that some drivers wear like a second suit, rarely says “I” in interviews, makes a point to thank the team back at the factory, has succeeded despite not (like so many other drivers) being born to the sport, and is outspoken on human rights and other social issues. His rainbow helmet was a thing of beauty and likely did more to promote rights awareness than a year’s worth of articles.
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This year’s F1 car changes have put Mercedes at a distinct disadvantage. Unless they get those problems sorted, Hamilton may never win that next championship, the one that would break the tie for first and put him at the very top.
This year his helmet carries a quote from Maya Angelou: “Still, I rise.”
And now I’m realizing what so many fans before me have: Despite the possibility, nay, likelihood, of disappointment, I’ll root for him anyway.*
His vision of excellence is worth it.
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* I’m not the only one. I spotted Michelle Obama and George Lucas in the Mercedes garage today.
Human
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, Writers on May 6, 2022| Leave a Comment »
“You say you’re ‘depressed’ — all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective — it just means you’re human.”
― David Mitchell
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Risk/Reward
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, climate, creativity, Fiction, genre fiction, inspiration, sff, Writers, writing on May 5, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Today, another free installment from Anthropocene’s Climate Parables series.
Dodging the Apocalypse | Mark Alpert
Yo, fellow defenders of our beautiful planet, happy Monday and happy Earth Day! What a crazy week, right? I’m guessing you’ve heard about my adventures in New Mexico; they were all over the freakin’ news. So first let me send a shout out to you, my loyal listeners, for your amazing support of this graying environmental correspondent. Without you, I’d probably still be in jail.
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