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Sunday, November 28, 2021
Haruki Murakami
After focus, the next most important thing for a novelist is, hands down, endurance. If you concentrate on writing three or four hours a day and feel tired after a week of this, you’re not going to be able to write a long work. What’s needed for a writer of fiction—at least one who hopes to write a novel—is the energy to focus every day for half a year, or a year, or two years. You can compare it to breathing.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Cassie Leedham
Check out Cassie Leeham's art. She is versatile and amazing! https://inklove.co.uk/
Here she is giving an interview. https://twitter.com/i/status/1464927655791411201
John Ruskin
"It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work."
-John Ruskin
Becomes
"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it."
-John Ruskin
Lights on Nobody Home
We woke up very early and found a black SUV Audi blocking our driveway with the motor running. The driver was sound asleep. Thank God for the local police department. They made sure everything was okay.
look for what is good and strong
“You will find it less easy to unroot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less of others faults; in every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it and as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.”
―
Dream lofty dreams
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.”
―“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.”
―“Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.”
―
Happy in their Work
“In order that people may be happy in their work,
these three things are needed:
they must be fit for it;
they must not do too much of it;
and they must have a sense of success in it.”
―
Weather
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ”
―
John Ruskin
1. "Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."
-John Ruskin.
2. "Every increased possession loads us with new weariness."
-John Ruskin.
3. "There is no wealth but life."
-John Ruskin.
4. "To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one."
-John Ruskin.
5. "A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel."
-John Ruskin.
6. "That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others."
-John Ruskin.
7. "Remember that most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance."
-John Ruskin.
8. "The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most."
-John Ruskin.
9. "An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome."
-John Ruskin.
10. "In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."
-John Ruskin.
11. "Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
-John Ruskin.
12. "Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them."
-John Ruskin.
13. "Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see."
-John Ruskin.
14. "Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel."
-John Ruskin.
15. "Your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."
-John Ruskin.
16. "Books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."
-John Ruskin.
17. "In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work."
-John Ruskin.
18. "Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it."
-John Ruskin.
19. "There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast."
-John Ruskin.
20. "No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser."
-John Ruskin.
Saturday, November 27, 2021
By Esau McCaulley
I Grew Up Poor. How Am I Supposed to Raise My Middle-Class Kids?
At my family’s Thanksgiving, we all go around the table and name something we are grateful for. I am thankful for my wife and children. I am thankful for the life that they live. But I am also thankful for the things I suffered that made me who I am and for the ways that such suffering does not let you go. It ties you to all the other hurting people of the world. It gives your success a vocation and a purpose: to create more happy families gathering for family meals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/opinion/poor-dad-rich-kids.html
“the silver tsunami”
These upscale retirement homes cater to the affluent end of the “the silver tsunami” — the coming wave of aging baby boomers who are still socially and culturally active, and who have become accustomed to a certain quality of life.
David Freshwater, the chairman of Watermark Retirement Communities, said giving seniors three squares and meeting their basic living needs, as many nursing homes have done for the World War II generation, is not going to cut it for more demanding boomers.
“Boomers question things,” Mr. Freshwater said. “They don’t want to be entertained so much as engaged.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/27/style/growing-old-in-high-style.html
Fly that Microplane
I made tea last night and for some reason it had no flavor so I grabbed the microplane and flew it around the room. I grated fresh ginger over my mug. Little pieces floated in the tea but it wasn't a problem at all. The flavor was amazing.
HERE!
When my husband had eye surgery he came home with an H over his eye. I asked him what that was about. "Maybe it means HERE," he said. Then we joked that there should have been an NHS over the other eye: NOT HERE STUPID.
At the followup we asked the doctor about the H and told him our theory. He laughed. "I love it," he said, "but that's the initial of my last name, so the patient doesn't get the wrong doctor."
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