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.
Sunday Post-its
Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, I’ve been thinking of stringing lights a little early this year. And you might as well know what I want for Christmas.
Funny photo: Grandpa remembers the good old days.
If you’re like me, you’ve always wanted to know exactly how the genetics of our species really works. Here, in a single photo, is the lesson.
Marginalia
Literary news: So It Goes: a new book about Kurt Vonnegut.
Jokes: 40 Things You’d Really Like To Say.
Video: It’s Time. A message whose time has come, because it’s time for society to stop judging love.
Fun stuff: Mama said there’d be days like this. Perpetual motion, or binary metaphor in a box.
and it could be beautiful
A lovely and thoughtful short film about gratitude, for Thanksgiving. … Peace to you.
If you don't know how to open a YouTube video in full screen, use this link.
via Liz Tiztes on Google+.
Marginalia
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.
Rain Coming
Rain Coming
Originally uploaded by kylekimberlin
I took this photo tonight. The photo doesn’t do justice to the sky’s very dramatic performance. It was a very nice rainy day.
Click it to view, then click again to enlarge and view other photos of mine on Flickr.
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.
Metaphor 