I saw this a few days ago http://vintageanchorbooks.tumblr.com/post/113688366199/i-like-trees-because-they-seem-more-resigned-to and it called to mind a Herman Hesse saying I remembered from long ago http://liquid-time-bomb.tumblr.com/post/41545316910/trees-are-sanctuaries-whoever-knows-how-to-speak Maria Popova gives a longer appeciation in Hermann Hesse on What Trees Teach Us About…
http://misspruneflake.tumblr.com/post/113611409806/now-i-will-a-rhyme-construct-by-chosen-words-the Seth Godin had something to say, too [http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/sethsmainblog/~3/DSQgOU9wu_o/sethsblog~Magic-and-irrational.html] . > Today is Pi day, the 14th day of the 3rd month of the fifteenth year... 3.1415 > Pi is our most…
> Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing. Philip Roth, born today in 1933 Via VintageAnchor Books [http://vintageanchorbooks.tumblr.com/post/114056421093/literature-takes-a-habit-of-mind-that-has]…
That looks like the title of a John Cage piece, but it's really the time I turned in on the 10-meter course in rehab this morning. I broke the one-minute mark that had been set for me! Not bad.…
The New York Times writes today of the discovery of the bones of Cervantes and the hold that the burial places of famous writers have on people [http://nyti.ms/194H37t]. I'm one of those who have made a number of literary pilgrimages and hope to make a…
Put my Bioness assistive device back on for the first time in nearly three weeks today and used it while I went outside for the first time in quite a while to execute a transfer to a car. The rest of my sessions I built skill walking and using Bioness,…
Ended last week meeting a challenge to take some steps for the first time since my accident. Today I managed a ten-meter course three times, performing better for time each time. I got down to 1:07; the challenge for the end of the week is to do it in…
When we were reviewing our goals for the week—walking and climbing stairs—the PT I am working with referred to stairs as my "white whale"—there's no way I can negotiate my way into my home without climbing two stairs. In our second session today…