“Allow me to introduce myself — first negatively.
“No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter worships me… No round of beef or tongue or ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel room tapestried with [...]
Archive for May, 2008
On Travel
Posted in Literature, Travel on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sage Observation
Posted in Literature, tagged Dogs on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Dachshunds have a remarkable capacity for resting even under the most leisurely of regimes.”
– Mary Doria Russell in Dreamers of the Day
It’s Not Polite
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”
– Variously said to be an old Chinese proverb, a saying inside a fortune cookie, found in a box of ginger snaps, or done in needlepoint on a pillow.
Love Song
Posted in Literature on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Come into the garden, Fred,
For the neighborhood tabby is gone.
Come into the garden, Fred.
I have nothing but my flea collar on,
And the scent of catnip has gone to my head.
I’ll wait by the screen door till dawn.”
– from “Alley Cat Love Song” by Dana Gioia, collected in Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, edited [...]
Sorting
Posted in Literature on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or just sorting the laundry.” — E.B. White, from Letters of E.B. White, quoted in the April 2008 Real Simple
It is always a pleasure to hear from E.B. White, a writer whose thoughts have been informing [...]
Priorities, Distractions
Posted in Photography, Religion on May 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“I wish we could prioritize so that we were actually talking about issues of global justice and debt remission and global warming and so on. I mean, there’s something very bizarre about the rich arguing about sex while the poor are clamoring for justice.”
– N.T. Wright, Bishop of Durham, quoted in Newsweek, May 5, 2008, [...]
All the Other Ages
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”
– Madeleine L’Engle, quoted in The New York Times in 1985
It Often Helps
Posted in Commentary, Film on May 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“We got to know each other by talking, which I think is the best way.”
– Jessica Simpson, quoted in Glamour, June 2008
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