January 2012
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“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot...”
– Johnny Depp (via allthingsstylish)
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Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory →
I’m so glad there’s a “This American Life” treatment of this. I saw Mike Daisey’s show The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs a couple years ago.
If you see Daisey’s show, it will not leave your brain for a very long time. Daisey is unassuming. When he is not, he can be brash, course and loud. All this serves to compound his brilliance. It haunts you that he...
Debussy- Clair de Lune
(I tend to like the...
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Kelly Joe Phelps- Goodnight Irene
“Much of the research confirms things we’ve always suspected. For example, in...”
– Harvard Business Review interviews Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness. (via curiositycounts)
yes, very much so.
“It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there...”
– Edgar Allan Poe
(via daresomethingawesomeandworthy)
I memorized this poem when I discovered when I was 12 or 13. It was in a book of collections of Poe once owned by my great-grandfather. The pages were so delicate and faded. I’m surprised I was even allowed to touch it. I probably...
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Max Richter - On The Nature Of Daylight
“Of course it was painful, and there are times when, emotionally, I just want to...”
– Haruki Murakami
It’s actually more to it than this, but Murakami’s line is a good place to start. I don’t run because it is painful. But I do run because it is painful. I do it to transcend the pain. To experience something richer, more robust than the pain. Pain is just the...
