I have a *lot* of envelopes to send out today, and among the many, many things I would like to know in this life, one question burns bright:
Why don’t envelopes have margarita-flavored glue?
Tell me that wouldn’t encourage snail mail:)
Posts Tagged ‘Thoughts’
Thought for the Weekend
Posted in Likes, tagged Anne Lamott, inspiration, Motivation, quotes, Thoughts on October 4, 2013| 1 Comment »
I’m busy, as I am most Fridays, but I wanted to send you into the weekend with this thought:
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
― Anne Lamott
This weekend I think the truth will taste like cookies:)
It’s Enough
Posted in Writing, tagged Anne Lamott, creativity, E.L. Doctorow, finishing, inspiration, Motivation, Thoughts, work, writing, yay on September 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »
For a friend who is facing down a challenging project, here’s a quote I like:
“E.L. Doctorow once said that ‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Who among us couldn’t use a little perspective, and some encouragement? I would add that it’s helpful to remember that whatever the undertaking, the work doesn’t have to be perfect. Heck, I can guarantee that it won’t be perfect, nothing is. That’s not the point.
To my friend, and to myself, and to anyone else confronting a difficult task, I recommend taking a breath, and just making it as good as you can.
It will be good enough.
Death, and After
Posted in Writing, tagged creativity, death, home, inspiration, Motivation, Thoughts, work on September 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I’m back, the world is still turning, and suddenly it’s Fall.
Death, like so many of life’s difficulties, serves to highlight what can be accomplished in the meantime and the short span in which we have to do it.
Time to get back to work.
Jen’s Not Here Right Now…
Posted in Other, tagged death, joy, Thoughts on September 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Sorry I’ve been away (and that I will be MIA for a few more days). Death in the family. I find it humbling and strangely joyous that everyone, at one point or another, experiences the challenges and strain of family loss… and continues on.
Smart Man
Posted in Funny, Likes, tagged arts, awesome, books, Einstein, flash fiction online, good society, inspiration, knowledge, public libraries, smart, Thoughts, yay on August 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »
From Flash Fiction Online’s Facebook page. I can’t even say how much I love this…
Like many other committed readers and writers, I spent a significant part of my time from childhood on in public libraries. People often take them for granted now, but imagine a time (or place) where you couldn’t pop down to the corner for a book, or a consultation with a librarian, or a safe quiet place to read and work, where knowledge wasn’t freely available to all. What a wonderful invention.
Survival Hints for Creative Young Weirdos
Posted in Likes, Other, tagged artists, awesome, creativity, culture, finishing, inspiration, kids, Motivation, NPR, Thoughts, weirdos, yay on July 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Just in time for Comic-Con, Linda Holmes over at NPR’s Monkey See pop-culture column has written a lovely piece today. It’s framed as a letter to “young creative weirdos,” those who may be socially awkward now but who will constitute our next wave of creators, of thinkers, of innovators. Here are a few excerpts, but if you are interested in encouraging young people to do more, do better, do different, I suggest you read the whole thing.
On change, and the making of same:
Don’t confuse what people are getting with what people want…. If you had told people [100 years ago], “I am a young person, and I intend to create Superman,” they would have told you, “That’s nice, dear, eat your dinner.” Things change.
On feedback:
Only listen to it if it’s supposed to make you better, not if it’s supposed to make you stop.
On work:
Write a lot, paint a lot, shoot a lot of film, take a lot of pictures, dance a lot, sing a lot, whatever the thing you do is, do it a lot.…Keep going.
This is exactly the sort of letter I would have appreciated as a kid. Pass it on.
Boy, Did My Parents Get a Deal
Posted in Other, tagged adoption, biracial, NPR, race, srsly, Thoughts on June 29, 2013| 5 Comments »
Twelve and a half bucks, that’s what it cost my parents to adopt me. Would they have had to pay more for a white baby? We’ll never know, but according to NPR’s article on the issue, ‘Black Babies Cost Less To Adopt’, a skin-color based fee structure isn’t uncommon today. Not to mention how incredibly expensive the process is across the board.
/wtf, world?
Honestly.
Everyone You Know…
Posted in Likes, Science!, tagged carl sagan, home, inspiration, pale blue dot, photography, science, space, Thoughts on June 28, 2013| 1 Comment »
From an NPR article on a global “self-portrait” scheduled for July 19th. Thank you, Carl, for putting us all in perspective.
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