Author Archives: Kyle Kimberlin

Friday Post-its

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Postits

Video: It’s OK to not like things, but … you’ll see.

Animated image: Black Lab says its time for naps, needs blankie.

Suggested post: Are Internet Idiots Annihilating Your Productivity? (Copyblogger). This is a great one for writers, and it handed me a few chuckles.

Article: Top Five Regrets of The Dying. What truth can we learn here, to make our lives richer today?

Video: What makes a family? A very impressive young man makes a brief but impassioned, thoughtful address to the Iowa House of Representatives.

News with video: Ringling Bros Circus has been assessed the largest fine in history for animal abuse. I think we should boycott them forever. Let animal circuses be a thing of the past.

Have a very metaphorical weekend.

To Live

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‎"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go."

~ Mary Oliver

Cleaning the Attic

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Cleaning the attic is basically the same thing as draining the swamp. It means getting rid of all the extraneous, dusty stuff that's floating around in your mind, so you can focus on doing something creative. Because your brain is like the junk drawer in your kitchen, man.

Some writers do writing practice – random or stream of consciousness writing – to rid themselves of the spooge. Others take a walk, meditate, wash the pickup truck, or cower in a happy place hugging their pet.

I've tried all those things, and they're all good. But today I suggest you try the following: Self help advice from a two-year-old.

Let me know how it works for you.

Marginalia

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marginalia (ˌmɑːdʒɪˈneɪlɪə)

— pl n

notes in the margin of a book, manuscript, or letter*

Video: When Toys Take a Road Trip.

Video: Dog won’t leave his master’s grave.

News link with comment: Charges dropped against students at UC Davis.

Social comment: Cowards Among Us. Real men face the bullies and stand up for students.

Politics: Where does OWS go from here? (An email from filmmaker Michael Moore.)

* Content from my other blogs; i.e., what I do while I watch TV.

"Shame On You"

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I used to have respect for police work. It was hard not to after so many officers died on 9/11. But the police in many US cities this year have defiled that memory of self-sacrifice and desecrated their own uniforms. They have been callous and brutal and insensate. I want to see cops put in jail for what they've done to peacefully protesting citizens. I don't know who the hell they think they work for, who they're supposed to serve, but they're wrong.