...but a lovely thought from Thoreau. > “Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.” On this snow-swallowed day, I’m taking a winter walk with…
> “All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.” Viva Borges https://t.co/gA3IPWp5cT — Explore (@Explorer) November 8, 2018 [https://twitter.com/Explorer/status/1060570897373978624?ref_src=twsrc%…
> Good Sense vs. Free Hope – the brilliant and forgotten Margaret Fuller on reaping wonder from everyday reality https://t.co/ONt0ayJFGA pic.twitter.com/XFKKnorT2J [https://t.co/XFKKnorT2J] — Maria Popova (@brainpicker) July 5, 2017 [https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/882615557631160320] Amazing that advice so timely comes from so…
> "Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders." E.B. White + Louis Armstrong #LitJuke [https://twitter.com/hashtag/LitJuke?src=hash] https://t.co/GjkrnsDFd3 — Maria Popova (@brainpicker) July 14, 2016 [https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/753590661400715264] A nice pairing.…
From a recent Creative Mornings Kickstarter project in which the premium is "tea and conversation with Maria Popova in NYC." > Come prepared to discuss ideas, books and the color yellow! I offered considerably less.…
> Walt Whitman on Donald Trump, feminism, and how literature bolsters democracy https://t.co/QDJF9WtZiG pic.twitter.com/mk9N8uvBV1 [https://t.co/mk9N8uvBV1] — Maria Popova (@brainpicker) February 24, 2016 [https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/702478482689937408]…
> Some of the mail was important and personal, not just bills. It was exciting to get a letter: the paper and handwriting told you something, as well as the words. * Rebecca Solnit "We're Breaking Up" in Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness referred via Brain Pickings…
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…