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humansofnewyork: “I want to be an artist.” “What kind of art do...

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:12:48 -0400

“I want to be an artist.”

“What kind of art do you want to make?”

“I want to make different versions of myself.”

GENIUS.

so now i have all these emotions and memories and photos. are they art? does that matter? do i put...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:15:06 -0400

so now i have all these emotions and memories and photos. are they art? does that matter? do i put them on facebook and tag my friends? do i edit and juxtapose and put them to paper? is this past year a zine? is this past year a postcard series? will the life i’m living and the lessons i learned still matter if i don’t make something out of it? are the feelings still valid if i don’t share them? can i even share everything? will i be too vulnerable? is it fair to air out the old feelings when everyone is so diligently moving on in their own directions? is it fair to relive past lives when i can only move forward?

[…]

the truth is what i guess i have always known. life is what you make of it. sometimes literally, and i explore that a lot. but it can’t always be tangible. not every feeling can be a postcard that i can mail away. some emotions are exactly what they are, and they have to be mine to keep.

-Adam JK.

the bold emphasis is mine and is the question I’ve been asking myself every day. these are all the things I wish I could write that just aren’t coming out lately. be sure to click through to read even more. lots of good stuff on his blog today.

ranking all 27 seasons of the real world

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:41:30 -0400

ranking all 27 seasons of the real world:

Oh my word. There are TWENTY SEVEN seasons of The Real World? Back in my day (let’s say seasons 3-7 or so) I was borderline obsessed and had a encyclopedic knowledge of characters and locations. I stopped watching around the time when it became all drinking and debauchery. Consequently, that was also about the same time I was older than the characters on the show.

via outofhabit

by Sophie Roach.

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:22:29 -0400

by Sophie Roach.

"If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will..."

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:57:59 -0500

“If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already — it’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.”

- David Foster Wallace (via explore-blog)

anikastarmer: Block printed cover of my 2013 Sketchbook Project...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:01:08 -0500

anikastarmer:

Block printed cover of my 2013 Sketchbook Project submission.

The shapes and color palette here are so beautiful.

I didn’t know where else to put this. Tonight I met some friends for a few drinks. Over the...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:22:40 -0500

I didn’t know where else to put this.

Tonight I met some friends for a few drinks. Over the course of the evening we talked about death and grief and theology. And we laughed about kids and dogs.

On the way home the crescent moon looked like a teeny canoe set into the sky.

And I came into the house and the living room was toasty warm, the fire still on. Mike was asleep in front of MSNBC, replaying President Obama’s speech about Newtown and gun control.

The world has felt really heavy to me lately. I’m thankful for my friends and my faith, but it’s hard sometimes. Just everything, and for everybody. It seems like we’re all fighting something, doesn’t it? Most of it feels like something we won’t win.

AH. this is exactly what I was thinking last night.

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:06:49 -0500

AH. this is exactly what I was thinking last night.

xoplusm: A few weeks ago I came across an image with the...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:54:13 -0500

xoplusm:

A few weeks ago I came across an image with the following words:

Start 2013 off with an empty jar and fill it with notes about good things that happen. On new year’s eve, empty it and see what awesome stuff happened that year.

I loved it and wanted to do it – so I started a Flickr group called a jar of good things. It’s open to the public; no invitation needed. Write the date, the time if you’d like, and the good thing itself (i.e. “My tea was perfect today” or “I quit my job and am moving to Belize”) on a piece of paper, and share it with the group.

We’ll see how it goes and whether any restrictions need to be put in place. You can post three items a day for now, just to keep it from becoming too cluttered or user-heavy.

But I encourage you to share the good and have a tangible imprint upon which you can reflect 364 days from today. Because I feel like 2013 is going to be a great year. And I hope we each wind up having a big, full jar.

Fun idea.

I posted some pages from my December minibook on my blog.

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:18:34 -0500

I posted some pages from my December minibook on my blog.

explore-blog: Chuck Close on creativity I learned this lesson...

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:14:14 -0500

explore-blog: Chuck Close on creativity

I learned this lesson big time in 2012.

explore-blog: Happy birthday, C. S. Lewis.

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:50:41 -0500

explore-blog: Happy birthday, C. S. Lewis.

sophie-roach: In collaboration with my great great grandfather,...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:42:10 -0500

sophie-roach:

In collaboration with my great great grandfather, OW Carter

Sophie, your work is fantastic. These are great.

NPR Fresh Air: At first glance, a novel in which the main character eats herself to...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:16:39 -0500

NPR Fresh Air: At first glance, a novel in which the main character eats herself to...:

nprfreshair:

At first glance, a novel in which the main character eats herself to death may not seem like the most felicitous pick for Thanksgiving week; but The Middlesteins turns out to be a tough but affecting story about family members putting up with each other, even in their most unlovely,…

I’ve loved Jami Attenberg’s blog for years. It’s nice to see her get this kind of recognition on a large scale.

Photo

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:15:09 -0500

this made my heart stop....

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:00:16 -0500

this made my heart stop. WHALE!

via nprfreshair and kqedscience: The real-life Moby Dick: Incredibly rare white humpback whale spotted off coast of Norway

Some mothers today wonder about this kind of endless giving. As one mother put it, “As I...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 07:26:57 -0500

Some mothers today wonder about this kind of endless giving. As one mother put it, “As I strive to ‘hold’ my daughter, to be more open and responsive to her need to be heard, accompanied, and understood, I come up against my own needs. Who’s holding me? And, while we’re at it, whose turn is it to make dinner?” Her answer: God, the “real parent” in charge of it all, or better yet, the “ceaselessly generous life-giving, life-sustaining force” picks up where our limitations and failures leave off. We must, as the saying goes, let go and let God.

This is a good answer. But it isn’t sufficient. I am not saying God’s love isn’t enough. I am urging us not to turn to religious platitudes too quickly and thereby avoid facing the hard question of how to enact the love of God in daily life. Who is, after all, going to make dinner?

-Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, In the Midst of Chaos: Caring for Children as Spiritual Practice.

"One of my favorite stories is of Teresa of Avila. She’s sitting in the kitchen with a roasted..."

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 07:20:00 -0500

“One of my favorite stories is of Teresa of Avila. She’s sitting in the kitchen with a roasted chicken. And she’s got it with both hands, and she’s gnawing on it, just devouring this chicken. One of the nuns comes in shocked that she’s doing this, behaving this way. She said, “When I eat chicken, I eat chicken; when I pray, I pray.”
If you read the saints, they’re pretty ordinary people. There are moments of rapture and ecstasy, but once every 10 years. And even then it’s a surprise to them. They didn’t do anything. We’ve got to disabuse people of these illusions of what the Christian life is. It’s a wonderful life, but it’s not wonderful in the way a lot of people want it to be.”

- Eugene Peterson, quoted in Christianity Today

the highly sensitive [introverted] tend to be philosophical or...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:42:24 -0500

the highly sensitive [introverted] tend to be philosophical or...:

texturism:

the highly sensitive [introverted] tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. they dislike small talk. they often describe themselves as creative or intuitive. they dream vividly, and can often recall their dreams the next day. they love…

texturism: attention, internet: according to wwd, uniqlo is...

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:10:34 -0400

texturism:

attention, internet: according to wwd, uniqlo is officially (finally) launching e-commerce next week. - sarazucker | via tallgirltales

HOORAY.