I know it’s normally referred to as “Spring Cleaning” but, it is always the coming of the fall season that seems to spur in me an overwhelming desire to reduce and let go.
Category: thought
BuyMeOnce | Selling Products That Are Built To Last
An entire store dedicated to only selling buy it for life items.
What we believe in.
I’m currently feeling like Apple’s September 12th Event will only announce things that are not for me. If that’s the case, once my trusty, aged, iPhone 5 can no longer cut it, my only choice may be to go retro instead. I’ll save the email and messaging for home.
“Worry does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace”
— Viv, our instructor at this morning’s Yoga and a Pint.
Your "thread" should have been a blog post…
Yes. All of them. Every time.
Look, I’m not knocking your thread that should have been a blog post because of the content. In fact, I’m telling you this stuff is often too important and worthy to be owned by an algorithm and lost in the stream.
This is the one that set me off tonight
One of the more insightful things I’ve read in a while about a key and tricky to understand/articulate symptom of depression. Perhaps even life saving.
But, it’s a damn thread.
Seriously, I want to bookmark this, print it, share it far and wide, especially with people who are not on a twitter because, well, it’s an increasingly bad place for those who are mental illness survivors to be.
But, it’s a thread so…
Bottom line; please place any idea worth more than 280 characters and the value Twitter places on them (which is zero) on a blog that you own and/or can easily take your important/valuable/life-changing ideas with you and make them easy for others to read and share.
An opera/Bruce Springsteen mashup loosely based on The Merry Wives of Windsor but set in the Minnesota Iron Range performed in the vineyard of a good friend while we sipped on her sangria and were served gourmet food.
This is called a good Saturday.
“Arts jobs are real jobs.”
— Scotty Reynolds
My wife, with a beautiful eulogy for her father.
Reading with a pencil — Austin Kleon
“I believe that the first step towards becoming a writer is becoming a reader, but the next step is becoming a reader with a pencil.”
A wonderful post on marginalia and why it matters.
George Li: Tiny Desk Concert : NPR
Jeepers. What this young man can do with an inexpensive upright is magical. Virtuoso seems like a word you’d use to describe someone with half his skill.