Blue Nights—the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning” ~ joan didion there are days and there are nights and there have…
“We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s only hope.” ~ james baldwin a pandemic? COVID-19? it’s amazing (and almost shocking, though that’s how media and…
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Teresa you wake up and it’s friday. or maybe thursday, or could it already be the weekend, again? you can’t…
“It is tempting to write the history of technology through products: the wheel; the microscope; the airplane; the Internet. But it is more illuminating to write the history of technology through transitions: linear motion to circular…
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ~ anais nin ~~~~~ epilogue…. to begin at the end is something that comes naturally to me… whether you start with where you want…
“The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.” ~ Ben Okri ~~~~~ “The way you do anything is the way…
“I believe if there’s any kind of God it wouldn’t be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there’s any kind of magic in this world it…
“I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten….
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great…
“the stars we are given. the constellations we make up. that is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the…
“The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the…
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. “ ~ George Bernard Shaw ~~~~~ How do…