I have no idea how this works, but it is kind of amazing.
Little M Types Little Things
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2012-05-28
Source: uncommongoods.com
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2012-05-23
After the storm. (Taken with instagram)
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2012-05-20
Things to worry about:
Worry about courage
Worry about Cleanliness
Worry about efficiency
Worry about horsemanshipThings not to worry about:
Don’t worry about dolls
Don’t worry about the past
Don’t worry about the future
Don’t worry about growing up
Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you
Don’t worry about triumph
Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault
Don’t worry about mosquitoes
Don’t worry about flies
Don’t worry about insects in general
Don’t worry about parents
Don’t worry about boys
Don’t worry about disappointments
Don’t worry about pleasures
Don’t worry about satisfactions—
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s list of things to worry, not worry, and think about . (via explore-blog)
Clearly, I worry too much about insects and not enough about horsemanship!
(via explore-blog)
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2012-05-19
In this weekend’s Word Craft column (the best thing about the WSJ) Paul Theroux extols the virtues of writing with a pen. As I am currently going through the horrible exercise of entering my handwritten edits into a document that contains a draft of my novel, I am heartened by this.
Theroux writes, “the speed at which I write with a pen seems to be the speed at which my imagination finds the best forms of words. A long-ago introduction to the Paris Review Interviews said that authors spoke of pens and rewriting with such passion that it seemed that “writing is one of the plastic arts.” I agree with this metaphor of sculpting. I was gratified to read in a Newsweek piece about intelligence last January, that “brain scans show that handwriting engages more sections of the brain than typing” and “it’s easier to remember something once you’ve written it down on paper.”
I will continue to write by hand. And type. Whatever gets the work done is what we have to do.
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Sorry, can’t talk right now
I get my news from two sources: the New York Times and NPR and both are reporting that since we have the interweb on our phones, we don’t talk to each other any more.I have found this to be mostly true. I only have one friend that I really talk to on the phone. Plus, I sometimes talk to my parents. Otherwise, calls are short “I’ll see you soon” or “I’m busy. Call me later.” And I never, ever listen to voicemail.
I have noticed recently a number of people on the street using old-style rotary phone handsets that are connected to the mobile phones in their bags and it looks TOTALLY weird to me. But those handsets are so much more comfortable to talk on, so maybe they’re the future of conversation!
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2012-05-17
We don’t need eight glasses of water a day to stay hydrated. “What we now know is that if you drink to thirst, if you listen to the little voice in your head that says, ‘You need water,’ you will drink as much as you need,” Reynolds says. “You don’t need to stay ahead of your thirst. Drink what you want, and you will almost certainly be fine.
Source: NPR
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2012-05-15
How fast do you read?
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2012-05-14
Books need gentle treatment.
Source: maloriebrooke
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2012-05-06
The New Yorker’s answer to everyone pondering the future of reading.
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