Monday morning inspiration
“Always pull back—and see how silly we must look to God.” —Jack Kerouac
How chimps mourn their dead
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…
Monday morning inspiration
“Writing is easy. You just sit down at the typewriter and open a vein.” —Red Smith (On reflection, not sure if this is inspirational or scary. But I like the quote.)
Monday morning inspiration
“I write a little every day, without hope and without despair.” —Isak Dinesen (For this quote, and a few others I’ve used recently, thanks to Crazyhorse Journal)
Monday morning inspiration
“The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.” —Flannery O’Connor
Monday morning inspiration
“I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.” —William Faulkner
BP, rebranded
Greenpeace recently held a competition to design a more appropriate logo for BP, a company responsible for massive environmental destruction. I like the winning entry – here’s the explanation from the designer, Laurent Hunziker: The silhouette shape comes from a…
Monday morning inspiration
“We are here to provide for those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and more crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems…
Monday morning inspiration
“The author of genius does keep til his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the “innocence of eye” that means so much to a painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and…