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I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about what words mean. Not just individual words but their usage. This morning’s example:

To Do vs. To Be Done

The first is the standard but there’s something about the second I like. It feels stronger. I’m going to try it out at the top of today’s list.

Matthew Lang is back with thoughts on Using Your Time. As I’ve said, we all have the time. How we use it is a choice.

A Guide to Micro.blog For People Who Have A Love/Hate Relationship With Twitter

TL;DR You don’t have to choose between the platforms, but here are some of the ways that they are different. You don’t have to leave Twitter, but there is a good chance Twitter will leave you …without your favorite Twitter client, that is.

Journaling.

London’s prettiest and most Instagrammable bookshops

Any one of these is what I imagine heaven looks like.

“Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.”

― Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces

(via Sean Sharp)

We could continue to flock to Twitter and Facebook — we could keep paying those who have and will rip off democracy for a stock price — or we could turn our backs and help the open web instead. — Brent Simmons on why he uses Micro.blog

So much yep.

“It is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”

— Dr. Martin Luther King , Jr.

This is important.

Celebrating National Beer Day at Outer Range Brewing in Frisco, CO. This Belgian Dubbel is amazing. Cheers!

I fell in love with Back of Beyond Books in Moab, UT. A lovely independent bookstore with an eclectic mix of best sellers, local interest, and vintage editions. Friendly staff and smart customers too.