> "The greatest act of kindness on the Internet is to be quiet… listen and learn before expressing outrage or anger." http://t.co/pDiausvNMG — Maria Popova (@brainpicker) April 3, 2014 [https://twitter.com/brainpicker/statuses/451801568619544576] I'm waiting to see Susan Cain's retweet…
> The core of all my writing was probably the five free years I had there on the farm. […] The only thing we had was time and seclusion. I couldn’t have figured on it in advance. I hadn’t that kind of foresight. But it turned out right as…
At The New Yorker, Casey Cep articulates the case against unplugging [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/03/the-pointlessness-of-unplugging.html] , managing to bring the Pope, Thoreau, and other critics into one piece. She pretty much spells out the uncertainty I feel. > Unplugging from devices doesn’t stop…
> There’s something distinctly unfriendly in requiring people to participate in your chosen broadcast forum in order to participate in your life, rather than reaching out to them individually. It’s like that older aunt who sends out a form letter once a year to tell you all about…
> In Praise of (Offline) Slow Reading http://t.co/33sPcTRDXK #Read26Indy [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Read26Indy&src=hash] — Jeffrey Cufaude (@jcufaude) January 4, 2014 [https://twitter.com/jcufaude/statuses/419514154995572736] Jeffrey Cufaude and David Mikics do one heck of a job encouraging me to read more.…
A chance mention in Michelle Huneven's Isabel Archer, Great-Grandmother [https://medium.com/book-keeping-1/dc89b6529185] has at least pointed me in the direction of an ambitious (for me) project. Huneven wrote "The unexamined will of intelligent woman—so vivid and unstoppable in Isabel Archer and Dorothea Brooks, and…