May 2011
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May 31st
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May 31st
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“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like...”
– Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo (via velascojelly)
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May 28th
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May 27th
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“If anything, you should probably be a little harder on yourself”
May 27th
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May 27th
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ListenWilco, “A Shot in the Arm.”
May 27th
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May 25th
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Revelations and rebirths
The very first night I moved into an apartment of my own, I went into labor. I was young, single and almost completely on my own, and hadn’t even decided completely whether or not I was going to be able to keep my baby. It was rather terrifying. I was awake at about 1 AM and, since my mother had to come get me from another town, I didn’t get to the hospital until about 3 AM. I hadn’t gained much...
May 24th
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nodirectionhope asked: Hi! Just wanted to throw some blog-love your way! I've been enjoying your posts for so long (it seems silly not to have told you). Thanks!
May 19th
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“Until I was about seven, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I...”
– Fran Lewbowitz
May 17th
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May 17th
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May 14th
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ListenBruce Springsteen, “Independence Day.”
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“In our time, many of us have been taught to strive for an insane perfection that...”
– Christopher Alexander, “The Perfection of Imperfection” (via austinkleon) (via libraryland)
May 11th
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“The reality of being alive and the dream of keeping cinema alive motivated us to...”
– Throughout the recent persecution of brilliant filmmaker Jafar Panahi by the Iranian government, I’ve been highlighting why the rest of the world needs to pay attention to him. There is no clearer example now in the world of a principled artist standing strong against a repressive regime. And...
May 10th
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Mothers, daughters and superheroes
I had always thought if I had a daughter, she would be right in all the ways I was wrong. She would be strong without ever having been weak, she would be bright without ever having been overshadowed and she would be proud of who she was without having ever been ashamed of it. She’d know just how smart she was and exactly what she was capable of doing. She would be Wonder Woman with her power and...
May 8th
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May 6th
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May 4th
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Star Wars-inclined illustrator wanted
So the most popular thing, by far, I ever wrote on my website is “Mythbusting Princess Leia’s Hair.” Which is a little odd to me still, because I’ve thought those things ever since I was a teenage geek trying to actually braid my hair that way, but never said them to anyone because, um, no one cared. Anyway, of course I want to include that piece in the upcoming print...
May 4th
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“People who’ve never read fairy tales, the professor said, have a harder time...”
– Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl.
May 4th
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“He saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that...”
– Jack Kerouac, The Town and the City (via liquidnight)
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May 1st
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