All nature is your congratulation

Our gorgeous flowers 💚 (at Notre Dame Church)

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:18:55 -0400

Our gorgeous flowers 💚 (at Notre Dame Church)

I think my memoir would be called The Art of Being Dateless: One Wedding At A Time

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:40:26 -0400

I think my memoir would be called The Art of Being Dateless: One Wedding At A Time

The groove is so mysterious. We’re born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split...

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:25:00 -0400

The groove is so mysterious. We’re born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.

Lynda Barry

Yes! via.

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Tue, 14 May 2013 22:14:47 -0400

It might seem as though, if we were to live out our fantasy...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:19:00 -0400

It might seem as though, if we were to live out our fantasy lives, we would become more creative and expansive; we would be unfettered, alive, and truly ourselves. But “The Great Gatsby” doesn’t think that fantasies work that way. In “Gatsby,” everyone wants to be simpler than they really are. Everyone wants to give himself up to something that will define, constrain, and explain him—to be swept up into a fantasy that’s narrower than the life he really lives. Everyone is a fantasist, and, therefore, an actor, a “beautiful little fool.”

-”The Serious Superficiality of The Great Gatsby : The New Yorker

I’ve seen both the 1974 and 2013 version over the weekend and I thoroughly enjoyed both (though more keen on Leo). I’ll leave the reviews up to the experts, but I especially like what is said in this one.

A tree I’ll grow to let you know my love is older than my soul I...

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:22:00 -0400

A tree I’ll grow to let you know my love is older than my soul

I may have overindulged myself with this one, but c’mon that line is perfection.

The top 3 questions I need to ask myself on a daily workday basis: What font, size, color, design,...

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:21:00 -0400

The top 3 questions I need to ask myself on a daily workday basis:

What font, size, color, design, layout, image works in this piece?
How can we make an impact on the target market?
Does this create/reinforce/promote our community?

Maybe our career choices could be evaluated by taking a look at the questions we’re responsible for answering versus the questions we want to be asking, and answering.

Disclaimer: First cup of coffee this week.

Sidenote: there seems to be a direct correlation between the number of posts and the amount of...

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:46:00 -0400

Sidenote: there seems to be a direct correlation between the number of posts and the amount of coffee consumed.

The Blue Dress

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:45:00 -0400

I don’t recall pain, or joy, only the blue dress
I wore, and the door open to the sea,
and the liquid sun across the floor beside the bed,
and our crooning sense of having climbed Everest,
undaunted, undeceived.

I didn’t know who I was or who you were,
or even what we hoped for, in that slow, rushed,
soft, harsh, pretend, real, world. Even now,
I don’t know how to devour love like a golden apple
stolen from a teacher who gives too many tests.

So tell me what you remember,
and who you think we were,
and I will nod and agree, though I doubt it happened—
beyond the sea, the sun, the open door,
the blue dress, and the dream.

“The Blue Dress” by Freya Manfred, from The Blue Dress. © Red Dragonfly Press, 2012. Via The Writer’s Almanac.

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Thu, 09 May 2013 09:40:47 -0400

adulting: “With a few notable exceptions, we shouldn’t spend our early 20s exclusively writing about...

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:39:00 -0400

adulting:

“With a few notable exceptions, we shouldn’t spend our early 20s exclusively writing about ourselves. The world is big and interesting; take your considerable talent and go find beautiful things to write about.”

— Open letters to the girls of Girls, on how to be more grown-up

For Berry and the others to be rescued, in other words, two things had to happen: she had to...

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:57:00 -0400

For Berry and the others to be rescued, in other words, two things had to happen: she had to never forget who she was, and that who she was mattered; and Ramsey needed to not care who she might be at all—to think that all that mattered was that a woman was trapped behind a door that wouldn’t open, and to walk onto the porch.

-How Three Kidnapped Women Escaped in Cleveland : The New Yorker

There is such a strong analysis in the last paragraph that I just couldn’t not share. It easily lends itself to the countless others trapped in modern slavery. As apparent in this case, all it takes sometimes is to be aware, to be compassionate, to simply change a life.

A Poet Reflects: geopsych: “There is a tendency to be grandiose about this journey in...

Sun, 05 May 2013 21:53:00 -0400

A Poet Reflects: geopsych: “There is a tendency to be grandiose about this journey in...

But, there is no restraint in the month of May, no tenuous half-ways or kind-ofs. Every inch of the...

Sun, 05 May 2013 21:50:41 -0400

But, there is no restraint in the month of May, no tenuous half-ways or kind-ofs. Every inch of the cherry trees is impossibly pink. The blossoms quiver with their unbearable lightness. After months of cold, the doors fly open again and a hive’s worth of bees begin buzzing. Ask them how much to give of your heart! They’ll answer the way that you’re fearing.

-Equals

almost quittin time. the weekend awaits.

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:21:00 -0400

almost quittin time. the weekend awaits.

My cooking view.

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:50:07 -0400

My cooking view.

"Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the..."

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:41:34 -0400

“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Magnetism (via theotherway)

siouxlouise: William Holden & Brenda canoeing in British...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:23:38 -0400

siouxlouise:

William Holden & Brenda canoeing in British Columbia.

Danny Schmidt & Carrie Elkin — Know Thy Place (by...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:40:00 -0400

Danny Schmidt & Carrie Elkin — Know Thy Place (by kingofthecastle7)

on repeat.

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:46:58 -0400