December 2011
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Orangette: In my better moments →
This one’s relationship to work is a lot like my own, especially when the work is writing. She’s an inspiration.
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“Reciprocity is balance; balance is nonhuman. The acknowledgment of...”
– Anais Nin (via leelooartemis)
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“NATALIE IS COMING TODAY! SQUEEEEEEEE!!!”
– me
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W. W. Norton: A New Poet →
wwnorton:
Finding a new poet
is like finding a new wildflower out in the woods. You don’t see
its name in the flower books, and nobody you tell believes in its odd color or the way
its leaves grow in splayed rows down the whole length of the page. In fact the very page smells of spilled
red wine and the mustiness of the sea on a foggy day - the odor of truth and of lying.
And the words are...
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The Fox Is Black » Do You Wanna Play? – A Film... →
I’m going to have to work up to it, but I do think I’m going to watch Shame at some point. It’s one of those weird intersections of media and sociology and art and sexuality in which I feel… called to participate — is that too strong a word? Maybe, obligated? Led? Occasionally there comes along a film that fascinates and frightens me because of what it might mean...
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The most fascinating dinner party IN THE WORLD —... →
SEE??? I’m not the only person who likes to think up dinner party lists! This woman and I share certain neural pathways, I’m sure. Go read her blog, posthaste.
Once you read it, the next bit will make sense:
Michelle Obama
Regina Spektor
Emma Thompson
Michel Martin
Click and Clack
Hugh Laurie
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“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce (via saddest-summer)
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The Art of Being by Anne Coray : American Life in... →
Oooh, I like this one. I just read it three times and took a deep breath.
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“In a political culture of managed spectacles and passive spectators, poetry...”
– Adrienne Rich, Someone is Writing a Poem (via wwnorton)
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recycled soul: “Nativity” by John DonneImmensity... →
recycledsoul:
“Nativity” by John Donne
Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb, Now leaves His well-belov’d imprisonment, There He hath made Himself to His intent Weak enough, now into the world to come; But O, for thee, for Him, hath the inn no room? Yet lay Him in this stall, and from the Orient, Stars and wise men will travel to prevent The effect of Herod’s jealous general doom. Seest thou,...
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“You know, in my own life, when I would talk to people about my childhood, when I...”
– Justin Torres, author of one of my favorite novels from this year. Reminds me of a quote from Updike: “Families teach us how love exists in a realm beyond liking or disliking, coexisting with indifference, rivalry, and even antipathy.” (via wesleyhill)
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in texas
Got here only yesterday, and I’ve already napped, watched a Christmassy movie with family, slept eight hours, and spent an hour in bed with my coffee. I cannot explain how much replenishment this brought me. Next on the agenda is perusing tumblr from every room in my parents’ new place, so that it feels more like home.
Also on the agenda, contemplating my very, very low ratio of...
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“When the Seine froze solid in the winter of 1892-93 and then thawed, Monet...”
– Diane Ackerman, from Dawn Light (via wwnorton)
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“When the ground crumbles under their feet, [people] *have* to leap even into...”
– W. H. Auden (via Mockingbird)
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Download: NPR Music's Favorite New Artists Of 2011... →
nprfreshair:
Free music sampler from NPR Music.
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must be a friday
i’m nursing a french press full of coffee right now, while chowing down on hashbrowns with sweet italian sausage. there’s quiche in the oven, and i just have this feeling… happy that it’s friday? contentment? readiness? something good.
this may be due the the fact that i am going in to work armed with hair spray, frozen indian food, a bunch of soy wax shavings,...
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“Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our...”
– Fred Rogers (via misswallflower)
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“I once saw Jorge Alvarado, a Coahuiltec pipe carrier and Lakota Sun Dancer, work...”
– van Dernoot Lipsky, L. and Burk, C. (2009). Trauma Stewardship: An everyday guide to caring for self while caring for others. Berrett-Koeler. San Francisco, CA.
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The Seafarer
Friends, Romans, etc. — I’m managing a local show this January. Read all about it below, then come see it! So excited to be doing anything theater-related again!
From West End Players:
The Seafarer, which debuted at the National Theatre in September 2006, is a fable about two brothers playing host to the devil on Christmas Eve. McPherson admits “I’m all the characters in the play,”...
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recycled soul: “I once received a letter from an... →
recycledsoul:
“I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up. You may say that the serious writer...
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“Don’t believe the things you tell yourself late at night.”
– Ingrid Michaelson (via justkeepsmilingcourtney)
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