> 140 characters is plenty enough to: 1 teach and be taught 2 show gratitude 3 promote greatness of others 4 inspire change 5 connect us — Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) July 27, 2014 [https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/statuses/493437205218463744] via @TiffanyShlain…
Jim Brady's story of resilience and determination after he was shot [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remembering-james-brady-73-spokesman-reagan-gun-control/] with President Reagan is remarkable. I treasure it for Brady's statement— > Discouragement is a temporary thing. You just saddle up and get back into the fight.…
There was a validation of a sort for me in this morning's New York Times. In a short interview, Sharon Sloane, CEO of Will Interactive, says [http://nyti.ms/1m9n73y] > I do something every day that I call “chair time.” It’s my time at home at…
One of the small, but deeply felt, frustrations in my life is the inability to use chopsticks easily. I've worked at it— but it's not as easy or as successful as I want it to be. Here's word that a solution may not be…
A remarkable story of setermination and creativity. > The Boy and the Bionic Hand: A Chance Hospital Encounter Sent an Engineer on an Improbable Mission http://t.co/g1HsqdUsyw — Medgadget (@Medgadget) August 2, 2014 [https://twitter.com/Medgadget/statuses/495512590533947392]…
A card I sent myself from the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum. The museum was undergoing renovations when I visited, and the atrium is all I saw. I was never able to visit again.…
> Totally agree "A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." - Tolkien pic.twitter.com/dhVadNy1p3 [http://t.co/dhVadNy1p3] — marion chapsal (@MarionChapsal) July 29, 2014 [https://twitter.com/MarionChapsal/statuses/494157412585451521]…
> "I do not feel very confident that I can make anything satisfactory of Middlemarch." - George Eliot writing to John Blackwood, 11 Sept. 1869 — Oxford Classics (@OWC_Oxford) July 31, 2014 [https://twitter.com/OWC_Oxford/statuses/494832485780705280]…