“Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.”
Martha Grimes
June 7, 2013
June 6, 2013
“I am not in the widget-selling business. I am not in the profit-maximization business. I’m in the book business, the idea-sharing, consciousness-expanding, story-telling business, and I am not going to get out of that business, So fuck Ayn Rand, and fuck any company that profits from peddling the lie of mere individualism. We built this together, and we’re going to keep building it together.”—John Green
(via libraryjournal)
June 6, 2013
“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
— Theodore Roethke
June 5, 2013
June 4, 2013
From Robin Hemley’s “On Meeting Yourself.” Ed. Diana Raab, Writers and Their Notebooks, 2010.
June 3, 2013
June 2, 2013
The Sun Magazine | Sunbeams
“Throw a few chairmen of the board in jail for polluting the air and water, and you’ll see pollution disappear quite rapidly… . You would also probably see some pretty drastic prison reforms.”
Fortney H. “Pete” Stark
June 2, 2013
Home No. 5: Question.
Guilty. Enjoying the fresh juice. But I also keep pinching my skin in the arm that locks the lid in place. So can’t say my life has improved much: pleasure and pain still seem to go hand-in-hand.Should I get a juicer?
Everyone’s got a juicer now. And everyone I know who has a juicer talks about their juicer like it is the greatest thing ever. Like their life changed because they got a goddamn juicer. Oh my god, my juicer. They are healthier/skinnier/more fulfilled. Would you like some…
June 1, 2013
The Sun Magazine | Sunbeams
“Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hair shirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.”
David E. Shi
June 1, 2013
need a drink i cert’nly do
need a drink.
maybe two.
May 31, 2013
The Sun Magazine | Sunbeams
“Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!”
Henry David Thoreau
May 31, 2013
Home No. 5: I’ve been up since 6. I like not drinking, but every day I just get up...
I’ve been up since 6. I like not drinking, but every day I just get up earlier and earlier and I wonder someday if I’ll just reach around time entirely and find myself living my life a day ahead of everyone else. I get good thinking done in the morning, so I guess I can’t complain. There’s more…
May 30, 2013
The Sun Magazine | Sunbeams
“Life is bitter and fatal, yet men cherish it and beget children to suffer the same fate.”
Heraclitus
May 29, 2013
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
The mind is everything.
What we think we become.”
Buddha
May 28, 2013
“Water and words… Easy to pour impossible to recover.”
Chinese Proverb
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from To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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What is the term for scrolling facebook party invites to see if anyone you hate will be at a party. What is that called. Is that just called LIFE.
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“How can anyone think that it’s remotely healthy in a democracy to have the NSA building a massive spying apparatus about which even members of...”
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“Without literature, life is hell.”— Charles Bukowski
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Author Carl Hiaasen tells Dave Davies about the changes that have taken place in Florida since Hiaasen was growing up there in the 1950s:
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