September 2012
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August 2012
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“We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via vineetkaur)
June 2012
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May 2012
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mountain vs. well →
when i look back upon the things i’ve embarked upon to create change in the world, one thing stands out: the journey always took much longer than projected. if that journey was something akin to climbing a big mountain, i spent more time navigating the approach to the base of the mountain than summiting the peak, if you will. i rarely if ever planned for this “flat” part of the trip. the mountain...
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mountain vs. well →
when i look back upon the things i’ve embarked upon to create change in the world, one thing stands out: the journey always took much longer than projected. if that journey was something akin to climbing a big mountain, i spent more time navigating the approach to the base of the mountain than summiting the peak, if you will. i rarely if ever planned for this “flat” part of the trip. the mountain...
no one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. no one else can see the world the way you see it. no one else can feel your life the way you feel it. thus it is impossible to ever compare two people because each stands on such different ground.
- john o’donohue | via internal-acceptance-movement: graceyu
April 2012
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“The only reason to live in Los Angeles, where I’ve been since the late ’70s, is...”
– Matt Groening
“I’ve always loved intelligent girls, no matter how they look, to be able to hold...”
– Prabal Gurung
March 2012
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creativity can seem like magic. →
we look at people like steve jobs and bob dylan, and we conclude that they must possess supernatural powers denied to mere mortals like us, gifts that allow them to imagine what has never existed before. they’re “creative types.” we’re not.but creativity is not magic, and there’s no such thing as a creative type. creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the...
Intentionality →
at TED, i’ve found there are overall themes of each conference that speakers keep coming to again & again — often not the official theme, but a reflection of where the mood of the community is. and then i’ve found that wherever i am personally, i get coherence in different ways. for me this year, and for many of the folks i’ve talked with, the theme is intentionality: how to figure out and...
February 2012
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The Hill Approach →
Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.
The craft of your career comes in picking the right hills. hills just challenging enough that you can barely make it over. A series of hills becomes a mountain, and a...
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January 2012
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WatchA follow up video: Nou Bouke (We Are Tired) 2 years later via Miami Herald.
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WatchWe watched the following video in class last week from the Miami Herald regarding Haiti: “Two years after a devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, seeds of progress are starting to take root. But the troubled country still has a long way to go.”
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an interview excerpt →
for instance,’ [meryl streep] says, forking at a bread-crumbed oyster, ‘we are taught about benedict arnold, the first traitor in america, but i’ve never heard—until i went onto the [national women’s history museum] web site—about deborah sampson, the first woman to take a bullet for her nation. she was 21 years old in the revolutionary war. she enlisted on the american side under a man’s name,...
December 2011
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Diving for McQueen. Cathy Horyn’s studio visit to the McQueen atelier in Paris.
drawn...
back to Portland
or to…
Durham or Raleigh
France
DRC
Brooklyn
Seattle
San Francisco
many roads. conflicted.
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“Every person I interact with is part of the person I am becoming.”
– Patricia Moreno
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“I’m beginning to notice some improvement.”
– Cellist Pablo Casals on being asked why he still practiced 3 hours a day at 93 years old.
