December 2009
156 posts
Ain’t no party like a west coast party, ‘Cause a west coast party...
– Coolio
Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing,...
– Alan Watts
The hottest love has the coldest end.
– Socrates
Most of our lives are a series of images, they pass us by like towns on a...
– Lucas Scott
Can a Smartphone Make You More Patient? →
An honest look at our need for distraction, and moments of reflection that sadly become its casualty….wait….hang on…I need to check my email…..
(From the Harvard Business Review)
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the...
– Horace
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the...
– Zelda Fitzgerald
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
– Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is...
– Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Mele Kalikimaka →
Please click on the link, and sing my second favorite Christmas song aloud! Know that I love love love you all, wherever in the world you are! Happy Holidays! :)
(+ a shout-out to Andy Davis and his eternally hip style.)
Who is the real Jesus?
Don’t get tricked into confusing truth with facticity — i.e., facts and figures that seem to prove an “objective” reality. We know little about the historical Jesus — other than that he seems to have actually existed in first century Palestine and created enough anxiety in the minds of his religious and political superiors that he suffered a criminal’s death. Beyond that it’s all speculation, and...
I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time;...
– Charles Dickens
You should know that somebody, somewhere, is drinking about you.
– Glory Szabo
We all have our holiday traditions. Forget A Christmas Story…I will shoot my own eye out if I have to watch it one more time…watching The House of Flying Daggers while sipping on a hot toddy is much more my scene. :)
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
– E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love....
– Man Ray