November 2009
12 posts
Very often I email myself quotes with no attribution or explanation so that I can feel a sense of rediscovery two months later when I take the time to track down their sources. Of course then sometimes the sources are lost.
“What more can we ask of a writer than that he draw us into the charmed circle of his obsessions?”
“The whole of social life rests on theological...
10 Principles That Might Make Your Work Better or... →
This article is a little old, but it’s totally awesome. Its ideas are pointed but also malleable enough to apply to any sort of creative practice. They resonate a lot with thinking that I’ve been doing lately about writing and vulnerability. I particularly like:
8. Being too comfortable is dangerous.
9. There is nothing keeping you from doing the sort of work that you wish.
People lost at sea. →
I would like to say a word in praise of lapse. I would like to give thanks for moments when I cannot or will not feel grateful, when I find myself afield and gratitude feels unreasonable, far—flung away like folly or worse, like a feeling irredeemable, alien, and wrong. There is something to a thankfulness recovered from gloom. A gut-punch of gratitude at cooking and eating everyday food; at...
Some words I have been loving lately, definitions...
semaphore
tenanted
ebenezer
amanuensis
Ramble on.
The Rothko Chapel, Houston 2007 - Thomas Struth
This afternoon, a post by a friend of a friend referencing Thomas Struth took me on an epic online ramble so personally resonant that I wanted to set it down here in narrative form. First I stopped at several NYT articles that have been illustrated by Struth’s photographs, including this fascinating piece from a few years ago on political...
Having a moment here. Saving it for later.
“Without a costly commitment to candor among family and potential friends, the possibility of truthful conversation (a prerequisite for the formation of more perfect unions) begins to tragically diminish, and responsible speech that communicates what we’re actually thinking and believing becomes a lost art.” - David Dark, The Gospel According to America.
So David Dark is one...
Further flight patterns. →
