March 2011
47 posts
sam taggart dot com: First World Problems →
samtaggart:
People, myself included, complain a lot.
“Why is it so f*cking cold? It’s the end of March! Now I have to wear a coat & gloves!”
“Why is it so f*cking early? I don’t want to get out of bed!”
“Why is the train so f*cking late? I have to get to work!”
“Why did my f*cking power go out? I was…
I have pretty much kept quiet about it all, but all I’m going to say about this political/union/ b.s. is this:
If you are convinced that the unions (you can add in the Public Radio debate here too) are causing the financial problems in this country (the United States), the politicians have successfully distracted you from looking at the books.
These issues are either small potatoes or...
“Don’t plan vacations, just take them. ~Stephanie Harvey”
“There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys;...”
the other finslippy: Don't call yourself a... →
So very important to remember while reading things written by those bloggers you love: You love their work; their work isn’t their life.
finslippy:
Over the past few years, I’ve noticed more and more people using the term “stalker” when referring to their love of a blog. “I’ve been reading Melissa Summers for years. I totally feel like her stalker.” Like that. I can see how this would...
Sometimes you prepare knowing exactly what you must do, when you must do it and how it must be done and then you execute only to realize the result isn’t exactly what you had planned.
It’s like fishing. You plan the trip. Buy the bait. Get out on the lake. Cast your pole. And come up with a boot.
Keep an open mind. You might need that boot to bail the boat.
Watcholdjewstellingjokes:
Classic Joke: Dennis Spiegelman, “Bra Shopping”
Here’s a classic joke from the Los Angeles season of Old Jews Telling Jokes.
“I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not...”
“If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and...”
– The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The most difficult thing in the world to do is raise children. You must raise...”
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose...”
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an...”
– John Steinbeck (via thirdworldgirl-)
Legendary general manager Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who created the modern farm system and signed Jackie Robinson, shares with his grandson the game he loved and worked in for 50 years.
via Life
“Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does. ~Mary S. Almanac”
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,...”
– Agatha Christie (via bookoasis)
“Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do...”
Selling
The original caption for this photo is this: A common case of “team work.” Smaller boy, Joseph Bishop, goes into saloons and sells his last paper. Then comes out and his brother gives him more. Joseph said, “Drunks are me best customers. I sell more’s me bruder does. Dey buy me out so I kin go home.” He sells every afternoon and night. Extra late Saturday night and...
Oh The Places You'll Go! by Dr. Suess →
Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go. You’ll look up and down streets. Look ‘em over with care. About some you will say, “I don’t choose to go...
“You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on...”
Change Your Mind
Sometimes you can read something or hear something that changes the way you see your life. Over the years, I have read several books that have done that for me.
Music has always reminded me of times in my life, but rarely are the lyrics more than a caption to a specific place or event if they give additional meaning at all. Perhaps it was a song playing at the time something else was happening...
“Failure is Feedback.
Pain is not Punishment.”
“The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. ”
– Christopher Morley (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public...”
– Andrew Carnegie (via bookoasis)