January 2012
1 post
“There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but...”
– Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
October 2011
1 post
“And as far as coincidence is concerned, it’s never a question of believing...”
– Roberto Bolano, 2666
August 2011
4 posts
“None of us are old enough for this one, and how desperately unfair to throw it...”
– Ellen Ferguson (via lukescommonplacebook)
“I don’t translate my own convenience into other people’s duties.”
– George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers, but, dressed in their small...”
– George Eliot, Middlemarch
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
2 posts
“You really want to know what it is about 20-somethings? It’s this: we live...”
– n 1: Sad as Hell
Rewrite
I’ve been working on my rewrite, that’s right
I’m gonna change the ending
Gonna throw away my title
And toss it in the trash
Every minute after midnight
All the time I’m spending
It’s just for working on my rewrite
Gonna turn it into cash
I’ve been working at the carwash
I consider it my day job
Cause it’s really not a pay job
But that’s...
February 2011
2 posts
“I talk about the groups of teenagers who went from “I have a feeling — I...”
– MIT’s Sherry Turkle on Technology and Real-World Communication - TIME
“happiness is impersonal in a way that pain is not”
– Is Facebook making us sad? Stanford University research and Sherry Turkle’s new book Alone Together suggest that social networking may foster loneliness. - By Libby Copeland - Slate Magazine
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
8 posts
“I realized that to consent to be known fully by God and to submit one’s life to...”
– little sacred space
“If we want to successfully communicate with someone, we’ve got to...”
– CSI | Bridging the Chasm between Two Cultures
November 2010
1 post
August 2010
16 posts
“Dad once observed that personal letters were one of the few physical objects in...”
– Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of...”
– Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
“‘Very few people realize, there’s no point chasing after answers to...”
– Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
In Search of a Compassionate Mocha
Walking Gently on the Earth (a book I co-authored with my mother, Lisa McMinn) was released a few days ago. As I’ve been enjoying flipping through the final product of our labor, it’s caused me to reflect yet again on my successes and failures at sustainable, compassionate living. Just recently we’ve made the switch from disposable wipes and diapers to cloth ones. I was...
“Everyone is responsible for the page-turning tempo of his or her Life...”
– Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
“Yet in a communal culture, the ownership of ideas is a totally alien concept....”
– Community and Testimony: Cultural Influence in Biblical Studies (via Instapaper)
“Art frees you from the infuriating unfinishedness of the real world”
– The Angriest Man In Television (via Instapaper)
“To Simon, The Wire is about “the very simple idea that, in this postmodern world...”
– The Angriest Man In Television (via Instapaper)
“Some years ago, Tom Wolfe called on novelists to abandon the cul-de-sac of...”
– The Angriest Man In Television (via Instapaper)
“When there is no way of knowing exactly how long our skeins will run—and when we...”
– Letting Go (via Instapaper)
“People have concerns besides simply prolonging their lives. Surveys of patients...”
– Letting Go (via Instapaper)
“But the hope that we could carefully control how others view us in different...”
– The Web Means the End of Forgetting (via Instapaper)
“By “erasing external memories,” he says in the book, “our society accepts that...”
– The Web Means the End of Forgetting (via Instapaper)
“It is the ongoing tragedy of Afghanistan. Invasion. Resistance. Invasion. Will...”
– A Life Revealed (via Instapaper)
“Beyond space, time and causality, patterns in language have been shown to shape...”
– Does Language Influence Culture? (via Instapaper)
July 2010
26 posts
“Imagination is Reality Lite—a useful substitute when the real pleasure is...”
– The Pleasures of Imagination (via Instapaper)
“To be completely impartial is to be an idiot. This would mean that we would have...”
– No Secrets (via Instapaper)
“Internal dialogue is stimulated by a preparatory desire to speak, but it is not...”
– No Secrets (via Instapaper)
“Real questions frame things in a way that creates a restless tension, by...”
– The Dangerous Art of the Right Question
“During our investigation, in which we obtained hundreds of documents using the...”
– Los Angeles
“As the community of faith, what should we speak to our modern, rationally,...”
– Speaking the Language of Canaan: The OT and the Israelite Perception of the Physical World
“Most of us like to believe that our opinions have been formed over time by...”
– How facts backfire - The Boston Globe
Great article about the relationship between our beliefs and how we process facts. It makes me wonder what beliefs I currently hold that shape the way I see (or ignore) facts.
“Here, powerful people from powerful companies have gathered like gabardine moths...”
– LeBron James Profile - LeBron James on Branding - Esquire
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep...
