January 2012
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December 2011
9 posts
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Audrey Hepburn
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”
Brenda Uelan
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
Jack...
“I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.”
Audrey Hepburn
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
Stephen Grellet
November 2011
32 posts
vamos a dejar el pasado atras
“Spread love wherever you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
Mother Teresa
“It’s all about your determination. There are a lot of people with talent… I would go to sleep down and wake up in the morning optimistic. The thing is that no one writes unless they have to, so if you have to write, because it’s inside you, then you will.” Judy Blume Often Banned, but Widely Beloved, NPR
This is what you need to remember about power: the less you use it, the more of it you have.
Walter Roig
whatever blessing each flake of snow is the hint of, I am grateful, I bear witness, I hold out my arms, palms up
“Let’s borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel our lives have been too restrained.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
Facebook Posts that Inspire Me
“Whenever I feel burnt out, I read Ecclesiastes and remember that I will be dead soon and almost immediately forgotten, and that all my work here is kind of like draining the ocean a bucketful at a time.
Thanks to some strange chemical imbalance of mine, this makes me feel a little better.” Trevor Babcock
“Girl you are all light and beauty. Imagination unleashed in you will...
There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. Louis l’amour
He stumbled into faith and thought God, there is all there is The pictures in his mind arose And began to breathe And all the gods and all the worlds Began colliding on a backdrop of blue
Blue lips, blue veins Blue, the color of our planet From far, far away
He took a step but then felt tired He said I’ll rest a little while But when he tried to walk again He wasn’t a child...
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“I realized I let the idea run ahead of me.
Joan was there the whole time.
I almost missed the moment.
… She is very present.”
Annie Leibovitz, speaking about photographing Joan Dideon
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live...
Yellow Trees of Hope
happy I found you today.
“Creative people should have a mantra, something to provide peace and solace in times of stress…” he advised. Expecting some wise words, the audience listened attentively. Kidd shared his mantra: “Oh my god! this is an F*ing nightmare!”
-Chip Kidd
I. love. this. so. much.
Read the full article at Uppercase here:...
I love Johnny Cash.
Happy Wednesday!
That is all.
Soar,
eat ether,
see what has
never been seen;
depart,
be lost /
But climb.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“My gazebo is ringed round by towering oak and dogwood trees. North Carolina is known for its blooming rhododendrons and azaleas, which grow there too, in colorful profusion. The play of sunshine on the light and dark greens and on the pink, white, and red blooms of the azaleas offers a palette so beautiful that I become grateful to the Creator for allowing me to live this luscious life....
And my head told my heart ‘Let love grow’ But my heart told my head ‘This time no This time no’.
winter winds, mumford and sons
After the Storm
… not sure if anyone is reading my l’il old half-blog. it’s more of smatterings and hopes and musings and musters, and these few days it’s a lot of mumford and sons (no, I don’t care that I’m way behind the parade on this one).
for today:
And there will come a time, you’ll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your...
In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love, you invest your life
In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love,
you invest your life
Mumford and Sons, Awake My Soul
Design Thinker
looove this from Uppercase Magazine:
Some George Lois words of wisdom, paraphrased from my notes:
– be a graphic communicator: create big ideas not just designs – if there is no meaning to your work there is no meaning to your life – treat words with reverence: equate words and design to the words and music in a song – using a computer does not equal a big idea – intuition can be more important...
Don’t push so hard against the world You can’t do it all alone & if you could, would you really want to?
Even though you’re a big strong girl, Come on, come on, lay it down The best made plans Come on, come on, lay it down are your open hands Deb Talen
Impermanence
Hello, dear blog. Fancy seeing you here. It’s been a while.
Today, just coming by to visit and muse a lil’. I’ve been contemplating impermanence these days. Life feels so utterly durable sometimes.. so totally set in stone, so completely secure.
Then, in an instance, everything changes.
In New York, we’ve lost a dear friend in Sunday Ibok. He suddenly died about a month...
October 2011
1 post
Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
that we still are.
… …..
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near,
just around the corner.
All is well.
-Henry Scott Holland (Canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral)
September 2011
11 posts
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,...
a few thoughts:
1. life is really tough. sometimes too tough. even when you have it really, really good.
2. I want to make this pink cake for my birthday, which is not close to now. (via the glitter guide).
Ojala que te vaya bonito
Ojala que conoces gente mas buena
If you want to go faster, go alone. If you want to go further, go together.
Nigerian proverb
‘I want to be like the sun… who even after all this time never says to the earth, “You owe me.” Look what happens with a love like that.
It lights the whole sky.’
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Philipians 4:8
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law....