There’s a lovely little post on Kiki L’Italien’s Acronym Soup blog, in which she advises people to “stop extrapolating” and live in the moment in order to be more productive. “You can’t ‘do’ when you are always and forever dwelling on one detail or planning too far ahead,” she writes.
I have a corollary to Kiki’s rule — one I’ve tried to live by for years (with varying degrees of success): “Only worry about what’s real.”
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This video has been making some rounds this week, and I think it’s worth sharing. I saw it first on the Sched events blog, whose author called it “simply awesome and one of the most interesting promotional videos I’ve come across in quite some time.”
I watched it; I liked it; I re-shared it on Twitter, and then other people started chiming in that they also had seen this video and loved it and could not stop watching it.
I’m going to be honest. Their praise went way beyond what I thought when I first saw this vid. Continue reading
I’m thinking about introducing a semi-regular series called “Spam Poetry,” with spam comments I have received that are so ridiculous or effusive — well, really just so outrageous in any way — that I feel compelled to share. Here’s the first. It made the “poetry” cut because the language strung together is so beautifully nonsensical.
Let me know if you think I should keep this up. And please feel free to submit your own favorite spam — from your own blog comments, from email, from social media, from anywhere — in the comments. Please do keep it clean, though — this is a family joint!
“To grow improved,
previously catch what forces you to grow regressed.
each person features personal lacks. To remove them,
we all are to find out them.
since your considerations are fixed on past, you are not able to budge.”
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Photo by AstroHurricane001 at en.wikipedia [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
I used to be part of a book club. I really enjoyed it, but eventually the members let it die out, largely because of changing priorities and life demands. Sometimes I really miss it, though, usually when I find myself in the embrace of a book that’s so dense I either want to share it or need someone with whom I can bounce around ideas.
My glasses resting on the open book, 1Q84. I snapped this after jotting down some notes as I was reading.
This is one of those times.
I just finished 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami, and I have to say it was one of the most amazing books I’ve read in a long time — dense and multi-faceted and rich with themes and images that seem to simultaneously unfold and wrap together as you read. Continue reading
Today is my wedding anniversary, and yesterday was my husband’s birthday. I used to be very organized about personal milestone/celebration dates such as these, but those days seem long gone. Between the demands of work, family and now-too-infrequent attempts to do good in the world, I’m lucky if I even remember birthdays anymore.
Many of my cooking tools are old. Both the mixing bowl and the hand beater were my mother's, circa the 1960s. I just love the colors in this pic.
So it was that I got home from work last night and had made no real plans for a birthday celebration. I had asked my husband to think about where he would like to go for dinner, but he’s even worse at planning than I am and had not even managed to choose a preferred cuisine, much less an actual restaurant.
As for a cake? Forget it. I thought about it as I was leaving work, and again as I was driving home, but by the time I got close to home, the thought of a store-bought or bakery-bought cake just seemed too uncaring and impersonal. Continue reading