Archive for the ‘deep thoughts’ Category
I bawled during the last 100 pages of The Book. In real-life situations I am not really much of a cry-er but I can be quite emotional while reading and watching movies (yah, I always cry when I watch LOTR even though I know exactly how it will end!). I think I also internalized much [...]
Playing along with this meme from BiV and JourneyGal: 1) I have difficulty with auditory discrimination. Meaning that if I have several incoming sounds my brain can’t prioritize the sounds very well and I don’t end up hearing much of anything. So chatting in crowded restaurants is tough and I usually sit at the front [...]
Three random things about me: 1) I am direction dyslexic. Meaning that I can’t tell left from right. You would think that I could remember that my right leg is amputated and that that would help me somewhat? Nope. My brain just doesn’t process the difference between the two directions. It makes driving challenging. Fortunately [...]
lantana orange, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl. My lantana plants are such a source of joy. I have three now: purple, yellow-orange and red. I just love the ways their colors spread and change as they open their series of petals. Truly a burst of sun each time I gaze on them. :) The windows of [...]
A thought gem from this article:Greg Dening, “Performing on the Beaches of the Mind: An Essay,” History and Theory 41 (Feb. 2002): 1–24. “I read fast most of the time. That is because reading books…is my conversation with the world. My eyes are ahead of my mind when I read fast. I gobble sentences, paragraphs, [...]
Swung by a colleague’s house in a nearby city in the morning to drop off a batch of exams. She lives in a craftsman-style two-story home with a plaque on the front stoop noting that the house is listed in the local historical registry. Between the front gate and the massive front porch was a [...]
One of my students used the following word on one of their Final Exams, perhaps ya’ll can help me come up with a good definition for it:HYPOCRIPSY
Why, oh why, did Disney/Pixar have to go and make a new movie about French cooking and Paris and a protagonist named Remy (one of my very favorite names in this whole world, btw) and make said main character a RAT??? What were they THINKING??? Note to Pixar/Disney:Paris + Gourmet Food + Cat, Dog, and/or [...]
From an interview with author Terry Tempest Williams: “Most of the day I am doing nothing,” she confessed of her writing process. “I am waiting. Writing is a natural process, like evaporation, we might not see it going on but it is happening.” As a writer she keeps a candle lit in her workspace, a [...]
“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers which could not be given to you now because you would not be able to live them–and the point is [...]
“The greatest danger, that of losing one’s own self, may pass off quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is sure to be noticed.” – Soren Kierkegaard
Today’s thought brought to you by 37 Days: There are hundreds of paths up the mountain,all leading in the same direction,so it doesn’t matter which path you take.The only one wasting time is the onewho runs around and around the mountain,telling everyone that his or her path is wrong.-Hindu teaching
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