just received a request to lightly edit a manuscript by an editor in chief of a national magazine… i’m so paralyzed i don’t think i can crap…
‘religious fiction’
is it me, or does anyone else see the irony in than genre?
how could i forget the birthday of c.s. lewis (november 29th)?
Christians should not talk so much about “morality,” a word derived from mores, the beliefs of a particular tribe. Ethics, however, are based on ideas that are true at all times and in all cultures.
The problem here is that no one outside the IP lobby, not even those who strongly support copyright and patents, believes that these things are property that can be stolen. There is, I think, quite a bit of public sympathy for the view that the creative workers deserve a fair return for their efforts, and that social institutions should help to ensure that they receive it. There is essentially none for the inane suggestion that copying a video is similar to stealing a car.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book) (via ireadintothings)
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via ireadintothings)
what if our homes were places not where you retreat from the big bad world but what if they were places of hospitality where we welcome people in and we share life with them and we ask them about their hopes and dreams and… their failures?
kurt hannah
here’s another painting generated by one of the kidlingers during a saturday morning painting session…
i’m painting with kidlingers on a saturday morning… here’s one of their creations…
there are three new coffeehouse junkie podcasts (link) available this month. the recent episode features an essay i wrote — for a poetry writing workshop I’m teaching at the flood fine arts center — titled ‘the echo.’ also included are two poems that were discused in the second session of the poetry writing workshop: ‘i saw her through the mist’ by roger aplon and ‘the old man goes home’ by kell robertson.
Even when we try to avoid looking at screens, our eyes are naturally drawn to their flickering lights. The dazzling special effects of our iPhones and our video games stimulate our brains more powerfully than reality. Given the option of looking at the slow pace of nature unfold or the frenetic speed of a big budget movie playing on a tiny screen, we often choose the screen. […] Our visual addiction is masking our fear of feeling existence to its fullest.
Screen Addiction, Adbusters (via somethingchanged) (via jomc)
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and the sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Ernest Hemingway in Esquire, December 1934 (via 52books)
malty: My post-it note confession
confirmed… i have a visual on snow flurries in south asheville… kidlingers are in revolt & searching for their hoth battle suits…
this morning, i think i’ve heard more sacred hymns on npr’s giving thanks program than i’ve heard in the church i’ve attended for eight years… weird… um, so, happy thanksgiving day & imma eat some bbq now…
crookedtooth: Why is it that all of my favourite people live so far away?
yes, it’s almost 11p.m. & i just returned from the grocery store with the essentials… so i’m thinking bbq is probably the most nontraditional thanksgiving day meal ever… right?
searching for a new chess set and board for a young apprentice… can’t decide between an isle of lewis chess set or celtic chess set…
Facebook will replace email for a new generation. The chat is moving to a multimedia format. Gaming will move from devices directly to the internet. And Apple has a big future because of its strong mobile focus.
Ram Shriram (via the guardian)
I think sometimes that being overly type-sensitive is like an allergy, my font nerdiness makes me have bad reactions to things that spoil otherwise pleasant moments.
Michael Bierut, partner in Pentagram design group, NYC (via Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists by Alice Rawsthorn)
Read full article from the New York Times HERE.
(via icatchfoxes)
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
Anne Lamott (via crookedtooth)
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
Robert Frost (via sonhosincolor)
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