The Power of a Handwritten Note
http://blog.holstee.com/post/132536339667/in-this-time-of-just-a-quick-e-mail-and-terse…
Wait!
> We should learn not to respond to notifications instantly, says @TomChatfield [https://twitter.com/TomChatfield] https://t.co/zSYbMhGlwJ pic.twitter.com/DGvZUXDUAl [https://t.co/DGvZUXDUAl] — BBC Future (@BBC_Future) November 2, 2015 [https://twitter.com/BBC_Future/status/661037777711165440] The linked article reminds me to revisit Jaron…
The Science of Quiet
> "The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly." --Michael Faraday. pic.twitter.com/OnamZxLCiP [https://t.co/OnamZxLCiP] — Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) November 2, 2015 [https://twitter.com/Libroantiguo/status/661027291686940672]…
Grover Cleveland
> Since 1980, Sharon Farrell has been the caretaker of the Grover Cleveland Birthplace in Caldwell, N.J., about 20 miles west of Manhattan. > “We’re across the street from the Dunkin’ Donuts. That’s how you find us,” Ms. Farrell said, noting that schoolchildren see photos of the…
I should book at the St. Regis New York today
> More of this please. Latest Hotel Amenity: Books https://t.co/haZvn39cbn — Jeffrey Cufaude (@jcufaude) November 1, 2015 [https://twitter.com/jcufaude/status/660810327605518336] Worth Noting— > These libraries help guests make a meaningful connection with their hotel, said Bobby Zur, who owns Travel Artistry, a consultancy in Franklin…
Foodways
Just got started on Ted Merwin's Pastrami on Rye, and already I've run across this passage on the importance of delicatessens— > It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the delicatessen—what the food writer Joan Nathan calls "the Jewish eating experience in America.…
Poetry of Perception
Open Culture drew my attention to The Poetry of Perception project [http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/walt-whitman-emily-dickinson-william-carlos-williams-get-animated-by-harvards-neuroscience-department.html] . I thought Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself [https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/05/13/whitman-illuminated-song-of-myself-allen-crawford/] was hot when I found it a while ago, but these are eye- and mind-opening too.…
Amen to that
> "Having one hand is my complete reality, not a half a reality. I don't see two-handers ruing the fact that they don't have three." BJ Miller — On Being (@Beingtweets) October 22, 2015 [https://twitter.com/Beingtweets/status/657276723311067136]…