My secrets cry aloud.
I have no need for tongue.
My heart keeps open house,
My doors are widely swung.
An epic of the eyes
My love, with no disguise.My truths are all foreknown,
This anguish self-revealed.
I’m naked to the bone,
With nakedness my shield.
Myself is what I wear:
I keep the spirit spare.The anger will endure,
The deed will speak the truth
In language strict and pure.
I stop the lying mouth:
Rage warps my clearest cry
To witless agony.
Knowledge is erotic.
Jane Hirshfield, from her book Nine Gates
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Cesare Pavese, from his diaries 1935-50
ilovereadingandwriting:
About a week or so ago I got the idea of having writers who follow me write essays about a writer that they love. I shared this idea with another blogger, redheadbouquet, and she really liked the idea. So I am putting out the call to anybody who might like to participate. Choose a writer that you…
About a week or so ago I got the idea of having writers who follow me write essays about a writer that they love. I shared this idea with another blogger, redheadbouquet, and she really liked the idea. So I am putting out the call to anybody who might like to participate. Choose a writer that you…
mulierosity
noun • /mjuːlɪəˈrɒsɪtɪ/ • excessive fondness for women
Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via ireadintothings)
crapehanger
noun • /krāpˈhăngˌgər/ • a morose, gloomy, or pessimistic person
Germany’s national flag is officially black, red and gold – schwarz, rot und gold. What do the colors actually mean? Well, in the war of liberation against Napolean, the uniforms where black, had golden buttons and red lapels.
“Aus der Schwärze (schwarz) der Knechtschaft durch blutige (rot) Schlachten ans goldene (gold) Licht der Freiheit.” (From the blackness of slavery through bloody battles to the golden light of freedom)
Weekly links of interest
Productivity:
- The 22 minute meeting: “most meetings, most of the time, most people think most of what goes on is a waste of time.” read more »
- Avoid Office Distractions With Time Blocking: “In an interruption-driven culture, it’s too easy to let everyone else decide where your attention goes and how to spend your next 10 minutes.” read more »
- Returning Calls, Emails, and Text Messages on Your Schedule, Not Theirs: “only return messages left for me at 10 am, 2pm, and 4 pm.” read more »
- Getting started with GTD
Health / Technology
Coffee / Caffeine
vilipend
verb • /vĭlˈə-pĕndˌ/ • to view or treat with contempt; to despise; to disparage
Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.
Mongolian Proverb (via)
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz, American author (via)
Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.
Jules Romains, French poet & writer (via)
One of my readers, dashasv, asked me to share this video with you guys. Thank you for bringing me attention to it!
“Blick nach vorn” (Look/View forward) by Max Herre, is a very nice song with a great message: Stay optimistic and fight despite all the doubt, failure and pain that you experience on your own personal journey.
dashasv also wanted to know where the videoclip was shot. I really don’t know. If any of you does, please let us know!
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
do you still use business cards? my response goes something like this… it’s 2010, fer crying out loud… (via lh)
paperback dreams film trailer
(Source: http://paperbackdreams.com/)
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
Indira Gandhi (via iindia) (via radarchive) (via robot-heart) (via edatrix)
daedal
adjective • /dēdˈl/ • artistic; ingenious and complex in design or function.
Asheville Tumblrs & Tweeps are cordially invited to a poetry reading Monday, March 8, 2010, 7:00pm at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, downtown Asheville, NC.
Samara Scheckler is one of the featured poets for Monday’s reading and plans to read selections from a new chapbook A Body Turning.
Other poets include Barbie Angell, Donna Ensor, and myself with host and international poet Pasckie Pascua.
Dear Tumblr followers,
You are invited to a poetry reading featuring local poets: Barbie Angell, Donna Ensor, Samara Scheckler and Matthew Mulder, and hosted by Pasckie Pascua.
8 MARCH, Monday, 7pm-8pm.
Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, downtown Asheville, NC.
(828) 254-6734
About 10% of Cambridge University Press’s sales of academic and professional titles are generated by books printed on demand…. Before POD, if sales of one of the publisher’s books dropped below 50 copies a year, it was taken out of print. Now a publisher can keep titles available forever.
The Economist (link)
Coffeehouse Junkie 