Archive | September, 2010

A Virtual Love

30 September 2010 · A Virtual Love · Comments { 0 }

Hmm, this site seems to have been on autopilot for a while now. What’s going on? Well a few things. First, summer. It’s a fleeting thing in England, and you have to grab every sunny day you can get. I’ve been outside a lot, enjoying London. Now that I’m starting to hunker down for the [...]

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Monday morning inspiration

27 September 2010 · Thinking · Comments { 0 }

“Truth is not an unveiling which destroys the secret, but a revelation that does it justice.” —Walter Benjamin (via Crazyhorse Journal)

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Monday morning inspiration

20 September 2010 · Thinking · Comments { 0 }

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” —Charles Bukowski (for this and other recent quotes, thanks to Crazyhorse Journal)

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Monday morning inspiration

13 September 2010 · Thinking · Comments { 0 }

“Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.” —Susan Sontag

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Monday morning inspiration

6 September 2010 · Thinking · Comments { 0 }

“Always pull back—and see how silly we must look to God.” —Jack Kerouac

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How chimps mourn their dead

2 September 2010 · Thinking · Comments { 3 }

I was just going through some old magazines and came across a fascinating article in New Scientist – web version here. It describes how chimpanzees were observed carrying around the bodies of dead infants for weeks or even months. In many ways, their mothers treated the corpses as though they were still alive: they groomed [...]

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