February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
16 posts
Steinbeck on Love
Below is a beautiful written from John Steinbeck to his son, written on the subject of love. This letter is one of many in Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, a collection of wonderfully-crafted letters from the author to family, friends and colleagues. There is something so personal about reading someone else’s letters… something that really gives a glimpse of their soul.
New York...
December 2011
2 posts
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do...”
– Mark Twain
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
8 posts
“It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.”
– St. Therese of Lisieux
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“The clearest indication of character is what people find laughable.”
– Goethe
On Writing
Below is an excerpt from this week’s Atlanta edition of Bearings, with advice from Jessica Haberkern, former editorial assistant at The Oxford American and co-founder of Wink, geared more towards men but applicable to all, I would think.
I love words. I love when they form intelligent and complete thoughts, when they’re used in new and surprising ways. Unfortunately, our culture is...
Staples and Sundries Soap Line →
Ah, beautiful packaging. How I love thee.
“To pierce the curtain of the future, to give shape and visage to mysteries still...”
– Felix Frankfurter
August 2011
2 posts
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
2 posts
Interview with Ernest Hemingway from the Paris...
The below is an excerpt from an interview with Ernest Hemingway for the Paris Review in 1954, conducted by George Plimpton in Madrid. The below section vividly paints the picture of Hemingway’s work space, conjuring images of the writing steadily doing his craft.
A working habit he has had from the beginning, Hemingway stands when he writes. He stands in a pair of his oversized loafers on...
“Sport, don’t fuck this up.”
– Randy on Work #1
May 2011
3 posts
“My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are...”
– Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency
April 2011
5 posts
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and...”
– John Keats
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
11 posts
“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the...”
– Ernest Hemingway
“It’s no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their...”
– Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing
Worth 1,000 Words
While I tend to focus on all things literary related on this wee blog, the topics have been diverging somewhat lately to include all things “crafty, artistic, musical and literary.” Essentially, I’m starting to include a variety of neat things I find out there in the world, in addition to beautiful books and recommendations. (Speaking of which, check out the 2010 edition of The...