This Article Will Make You Laugh, Cry, Then Resent Me

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This Article Will Make You Laugh, Cry, Then Resent Me

A Moment to Breathe

A Moment to Breathe

Paris Review – Thoreau and the iPad, Dannie Zarate

Paris Review – Thoreau and the iPad, Dannie Zarate

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I believe that no great lyric poet ever speaks in the so-called “proper” language of his or her time. Emily Dickinson didn’t write in “proper” English grammar but in slant music of fragmentary perception. Half a world and half a century away, Cesar Vallejo placed three dots in the middle…

“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache for. It doesn’t interest me how old you are, I want to know if you are willing to risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive. I want to know if you can live with failure,…

2013: The Year 'the Stream' Crested

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2013: The Year 'the Stream' Crested

Here's How Elizabeth Gilbert (Bestselling Author of Eat, Pray, Love) Writes - Copyblogger

Here's How Elizabeth Gilbert (Bestselling Author of Eat, Pray, Love) Writes - Copyblogger

Dave Eggers, Tom Scocca, and Why It's Not Awful to Be Nice

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Dave Eggers, Tom Scocca, and Why It's Not Awful to Be Nice

“He enjoyed singleness, His solitude gave Him comfort. He would drink His coffee alone and wait for the day to pass, never wishing for a change to disrupt Him or His plans. Then, as if a cruel author had penned a major plot twist, She was there. She became the excuse that vacated His need to be…

Paris Review - Letter from Majorca, J. D. Daniels

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Paris Review - Letter from Majorca, J. D. Daniels

My second grade teacher liked to ask us,
“How do you feel today, on a scale of one to ten?”
Ten always meant I’m super, thank you
and one was always not today, Mrs. MacAuley, not today.
But I never liked numbers, they would always
twist and rebel against my mind so I chose
to speak in…

Why This Shepherd Loves Twitter

Why This Shepherd Loves Twitter

"When looked at from this perspective, personal development can actually be quite scientific. The hypotheses are our beliefs. Our actions and behaviors are the experiments. The resulting internal emotions and thought patterns are our data. We can then take those and compare them to our original beliefs and then integrate them into our overall understanding of our needs and emotional make-up for the future.”

Papyralysis -

Perhaps the best musings on the future of reading I’ve yet read.

Papyralysis -

STET | What Twitter does

STET | What Twitter does

That Goddamned Blue Bird and Me: How Twitter Hijacked My Mind

That Goddamned Blue Bird and Me: How Twitter Hijacked My Mind

kateoplis: War Machine and the Joneses

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Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people… – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The term “keeping up with the Joneses” originated with Rebecca and Mary Jones (old money of 19th century New York’s high society and aunts of novelist Edith Wharton). In 1868 they ordered the…

kateoplis: War Machine and the Joneses

The Perils of Precocity

The Perils of Precocity

This Happened to Me: Musings on Perspective and the Memoir-worthy Bar | Tin House

This Happened to Me: Musings on Perspective and the Memoir-worthy Bar | Tin House

The Beautiful Agony of Writing

The Beautiful Agony of Writing