“ What matters is not the perception, nor the fashion, not who’s up and who’s down, but what someone has done and if they meant it. ”
A single line from a terrific email response by author Dave Eggers regarding creativity, criticism, selling out and “the unshakable need to reduce”. You’ll be glad you read this. (via Wilson Miner) (via matthewb)
“ This is what we do, humans. We tinker, and change, and endlessly imagine a more perfect future. And at the same time, we idealize the past. So we’re trapped. Progress’s constant companion is nostalgia for the way things used to be. … The thing we forget about progress: there is no master plan. It lurches forward, in the dark, accidentally, and you’re never sure where it’s taking you. There’s no going back, whether it wants to or not. ”
Ira Glass (speaking about factory farms) from s1e6 of This American Life, the television show (via spaceminer).
in this we have to remember to see opportunity so we don’t get stuck in time like a kid whose face really did change with the wind.
“ Time seems to be moving quickly, maybe because things are changing. And they’re always changing. And that’s a good thing, but it also causes me to think back on all the things that have changed, and how each still moment between all of the changing things has been a thing in itself. Something to appreciate, something to learn from, something awesome, beautiful, terrible, scary, whatever it was. I am not one for much nostalgia but sometimes I feel a glimpse of it when it comes to this feeling that we’re all just planets in the same orbit and sometimes those orbits intersect for a while, and then the orbits move away, or just change angles, like Pluto, and it feels like we should all be appreciating every moment more than we are. Being real in every friendship, trading war stories, sharing the same cup, highs and lows, swearing to die for each other, so that it’s apparent that we are all really on the same ship together, and we know it, and will never forget. That’s how I feel about people, even if we don’t feel that close all the time, I know that at the core of each of the people in my life is this shared boat that we’re all on and it’s too cheesy and idealistic to mention it unless you’re going through really tough times or just really drunk, but it’s there and it’s something worth writing songs about and embarking on adventures for and howling for as you leave the shore. ”
I’m more nostalgic than Buster, but I really like this. It also feeds into a post which I may or may not write about why we’re getting married and why we’re having a wedding (yes, these are two separate topics).
“We are losing a piece of internet history. We are losing the destinations of millions of inbound links. But most importantly we are losing people’s dreams and memories.”
Just one more reason they never should have stopped making this show.
The winter is always a bit of a slow time in terms of projects on and around the blue house. It’s cold, often wet and we just don’t get the long days which so help DIY projects. However, here is a…
