Well, this really reads as if she never even plugged in— > If the weather is good, a run is in order. I feel energized and invigorated and ready to face the day. I usually run for about 25 minutes. I go about two and a half miles, around 10:…
> National Geographic's 2014 Photo of the Year award goes to....a picture about tech addiction: http://t.co/VzGora2d2r #signofthetimes [https://twitter.com/hashtag/signofthetimes?src=hash] — carlhonore (@carlhonore) December 21, 2014 [https://twitter.com/carlhonore/status/546607285355950080] Carl Honore points the way to the National Geographic…
> Waking up early is the closest you can get to a secret hideout. — Mark Larson (@mlarson) December 21, 2014 [https://twitter.com/mlarson/status/546647928119754752]…
> A great story, then, is not about providing information, though it can certainly inform — a great story invites an expansion of understanding, a self-transcendence. More than that, it plants the seed for it and makes it impossible to do anything but grow a new understanding — of the world, of…
The papers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez have just been transferred to The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. Tucked into the New York Times account of the acquisition [http://nyti.ms/1FivFyn] is this surprising sentence. > “I don’t think he wanted to leave a personal paper…
> “I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.” > —Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises I wonder how this [http://poetsandwriters.tumblr.com/post/103213680476/i-cant-stand-it-to-think-my-life-is-going-so-fast] struck me the first time I read it. Can't…
> It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. —Horace I recorded this saying in 2009. It holds its freshness for me across five years, and it's stranger still to think that it was written for a time without computers, iPads, iPods, and cell phones.…
> In many Muslim cultures, when you want to ask them how they’re doing, you ask: in Arabic, ‘Kayf haal-ik?’ or, in Persian, ‘Haal-e shomaa chetoreh?’ How is your haal? > What is this haal that you inquire about? It is the transient state of one’s heart. In…