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Friday Post-its
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.
Homework Every Day
To Live
"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
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.
plutocracy and democracy don’t mix
"Bill Moyers signs off his last broadcast with an editorial discussion on why plutocracy and democracy don't mix."
The video is a year old, and it turns out Moyers was quite prescient.
The video is a year old, and it turns out Moyers was quite prescient.
any glimpse
Any glimpse into the life of a dog quickens our own and makes it so much larger and better in every way.
~ John Muir
Why I Write
Why do I write today?
The beauty of
The terrible faces
of our nonentities
Stirs me to it
—William Carlos William
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Steve Jobs gave the commencement address of Stanford University in
2005, and shared candidly about life, love, and death.
2005, and shared candidly about life, love, and death.
another victim
http://goo.gl/8ntXY
"Today, another victim of the foreclosure crisis took her own life. She was a disabled American veteran …"
Not a happy thing to read, but a solid little dose of reality.
never forget
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou Kyle says how people make you feel is up to you. There is no property of human action which invests in it the ability to effect the chemistry of your brain. … You thought "never forget" was going to have something to do with 9/11, didn't you? And how did that make you feel?
– Maya Angelou Kyle says how people make you feel is up to you. There is no property of human action which invests in it the ability to effect the chemistry of your brain. … You thought "never forget" was going to have something to do with 9/11, didn't you? And how did that make you feel?
Metaphor 