February 2012
“An embrace means: I don’t feel threatened by you; I’m not afraid to...”
– Aleph by Paulo Coelho page 166
Good News.
I’m all about hearing good news lately. I guess it’s because I’ve started the gradual decrease in hope for… Well… People. I guess it stems from an unsavory email I received this past weekend that then spawned nightmares and more headache than I generally contend with sans complaint. I didn’t blog about it because, frankly, I’m sure that person reads...
Mumford & Sons - Timshel
Cold is the water It...
“All of a sudden, I was sick of that kind of thinking. I may be dead tomorrow, I...”
– Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections page 302
Ben Folds - “Brick”
“‘So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem...”
– Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie page 43
The View from Here
[First written sometime in late 2011, put in Drafts, and forgotten.]
It’s funny how something so old, with so many memories attached, can come flooding back with new meaning: the process of application, of making some sort of connection with the grander web of humanity. And it’s especially when one imagines how normal, or better yet non-applicable, something is that especially makes...
“Feeling nothing is not good, but it’s where a lot of people stop and stay....”
– Jill McCorkle, PS
WatchThing I Love Today: How to transform a man’s shirt into a feminine ladies shirt, a skirt, and a dress. No cut and no sew.
This is absolutely, 100% brilliant.
JobSearch Update
Still looking for another gig when I stumbled on some high possibilities that I could really get behind. Not just one but four possibilities! This could really be something, I thought.
That is, until I clicked on a posting I have every bit of experience in: Business Support Coordinator. I was taken back to the many months sitting behind a desk, crunching numbers, becoming absolutely obsessed with...
“… There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you...”
– Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie page 149
Bucket List Addition:
Take a train tour the entire length of the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
Let me edit this slightly, as the railroad tends to fork off somewhat. I want to start back in London, giving Paris another shot, saying hi to my favorite city (Amsterdam), and stopping by Berlin on the way to St. Petersburg to see the ballerinas, through to all the little (and big!) towns of Russian (hi, Moscow!), down through...
Florence and The Machine - Dog Days Are Over
I...
The Tallest Man On Earth - A Lion’s Heart
This...
Pied.
No one noticed the day he lingered near the window pane, the women scurrying about on the street hiding from glances forcing the men to try harder at capturing a portrait in their minds. He had written what wouldn’t bat an eye: it was due to the birds pied appearance to why it is now extinct. Extinction through difference. Play the part, isn’t that what they always say?
In a world in...
“Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want...”
– Unknown
“Your hurt. Your anger. Your pain. Your sorrow. Your frustrations. These are all...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Gift
Caprice.
Why fight it, the feeling of reversal, back pedaling? The absolute moment when one realizes they have stepped foot too far past the line drawn to pull back and hope the other contenders never noticed. The residue of insufficient dedication to a cause that up until that very second has been the very breath, the very life-sustaining element in the race for whatever door prize is up next. You can...
The Millions : Dashboard? More Like Bookshelf:... →
January 2012
Paulo Coelho: ‘Welcome to Download My Books for... →
This man. I love him ten-fold. One of the best authors.
“The writer’s real job is not to court the affection of readers but to...”
– Richard Russo
In Related News:
I have a really bad memory.
I need to write things down more.
“The mind will forget what once was, the beauty of it all. The story will be...”
– January 17, 2012
Movie Date
There seems to only be a few movies that I’ve seen via the Internets that look interesting enough to watch in theatres this year:
The Great Gatsby (opening Christmas Day 2012)
Atlas Shrugged Part II (opening date unknown)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (opened January 20, 2012)
The Raven (opening April 27, 2012)
How I missed Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, I have no idea. I...
Porter's Notebook: I Wish This for You →
portersnotebook:
The following was found tucked inside a used paperback picked up for a dime in a vintage shop in Boulder. The image on the postcard had long since faded to nothing, but the following endured in a tiny, precise hand:
Dear Son,
Here is a truth of life.
Pay attention.
A young couple alone at the…
Beautiful, as always.
I may or may not have really awful taste in...
I’ve been getting into this television show via Hulu recently after remember seeing a couple episodes in England way back when I was dating the guy from there. I think his sister watched it or something.
Anyhow, I’ve been watching now because it’s free and my goodness, it is absolutely addictive: Skins (UK).
Like, it’s just once massive clusterbang.
But, I still love...
“Once, back in my twenties, all I wanted to do was to throw my life away. But...”
– Charles Baxter, The Cousins
“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for...”
– Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie page 125