June 2010
55 posts
My mother: I'm asking you a question. You can't just answer with an unrelated question.
Me: Apparently you never watched LOST.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27) →
B.o.B (3)
Ludacris (2)
a3 (1)
David Guetta Feat. Akon (1)
Taio Cruz (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“There are three happiness killers - doing work you do not love and are not...”
– Richard Florida, The Happiness Project: “Cycling, Writing, Walking — and Living in the Right City.” (via lalanii, skeskali2) (via andeventhis)
“We are a society obsessed with unattainable ideals: D-cups on size 2 women,...”
– Elie Mystal, Female Lawyers, Can You Have It All? (via ATL) (via fivefifteen) (via five5five) (via 52hearts) (via andeventhis)
How to play monkey-pirate-robot-ninja-zombie →
“If the telephone had been invented after e-mail, everyone would be overjoyed at...”
– Jeff Pezzatti (via abloodymess, douglasmartini)
YES. I’ve gotten so used to “speaking” to people through written word. A lot of the tone in conversation, for me, gets lost. That’s what I miss most about regular phone calls. I do still talk to a few people regularly on the phone, but I miss when...
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– Roald Dahl (via quotewhore)
The Right Medicine
I also think that we find the medicine that we need. The people who need your particular kind of medicine will be drawn to you. As a yoga student I found myself drawn to teachers who had just the right kind of medicine for what ailed me.
Now, as a teacher, over and over again I hear my students describing the challenges they are encountering in their practice and they are exactly the challenges...
Realities of being a big shot
You know what Charles Dickens, Gandhi, Donald Trump and the vuvuzela have in common? They are fanatically adored by a certain group of people. They are also fanatically despised by another group of people. And by another group of people, they are completely unknown.
You may have a group of readers or customers who turn to you as their guru, and to whom you are the best of the best. But you also...
Sick Systems
Chop up their time. Perpetually interrupt them with meetings, visits from supervisors, bells and whistles and time clocks and hourly deadlines. Or if you’re partners, be glued to them at the hip, demand their attention at short intervals throughout the day (and make it clear that they aren’t allowed to do the same with you), establish certain essential tasks that you won’t do...
“everything is changing around you because everything is changing inside of you.”
– via shiningdefiance / via themorninglight
Sincerely, John Hughes
As for your English teacher…Do you like the way you write? Please yourself. I’m rather fond of writing. I actually regard it as fun. Do it frequently and see if you can’t find the fun in it that I do.
—John Hughes, to Alison Byrne Fields
If you have four spare minutes, read Alison’s blog post, “Sincerely, John Hughes” about her pen-pal relationship with...
A hummingbird in an endless meadow of flowers
Call me a pessimist, call me Ishmael, but I think that book publishing is about to slide into the sea. We live in a literate time, and our children are writing up a storm, often combining letters and numerals (U R 2 1derful), blogging like crazy, reading for hours off their little screens, surfing around from Henry James to Jesse James to the epistle of James to pajamas to Obama to Alabama...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-13) →
Priscilla Ahn (10)
The Heavy (10)
The Middle East (5)
Jack Johnson (4)
Audiovent (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I had this experience a couple of years ago where I got to sit in on the...”
– Ira Glass (via “On Air and On Error: This American Life’s Ira Glass on Being Wrong”) (via mcdavis) (via andeventhis)
It's ok...
It’s ok to feel sad. It’s ok to find it difficult to focus. It’s ok to be tired. It’s ok to be happy. It’s ok to be hopeful. It’s ok to not start work til 6pm. It’s ok to have a nap. It’s ok to sit down to something and not find it hard. It’s ok to sit down to something and find it really hard. It’s ok to feel spent. It’s ok to have a cup of tea, or coffee. It’s ok to go over your food Points....
You are not their stories either
And whether it’s loud and in your face or more passive-aggressive roundabout, it still feels like people are saying really awful, ouch-ey things about you when they hurl their stories your way.
But here’s the thing.
They’re not.
Because you are not their stories.
You aren’t the things they’re saying about you. Because they’re not even really talking about you.
I mean, I know it seems like...
“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
“There is no such thing as Financial Freedom.
Money is a tool, not a goal. Too...”
– Kent Thune at The Change Blog
“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part...”
– Gilda Radner
“Worry is a misuse of the imagination.”
– Dan Zadra
“It’s very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world...”
– Thomas K. Mattingly II, Apollo 16 astronaut
“Some think it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s...”
– Sylvia Robinson
“The abstract meaning of financial freedom is the acquisition of a sum of money...”
– Kent Thune at The Change Blog
“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect...”
– Anna Quindlen
“You labor to fill the day with activities; you create more tasks for tomorrow...”
– Stop Planning & Start Discovering Your Self
“It is really hard to see myself. Really, really, really hard. The beautiful...”
– What accountability does and doesn’t do | communicatrix
“Email in the morning is the biggest time waster EVER! Waiting until 1pm every...”
– 2 Hours and 15 Minutes of Email | Christine Bougie
“Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal.”
– Mike Ditka
“People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin...”
– David H. Comins