June 2013
8 posts
“What’s so hard about that first sentence is that you’re stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you’ve laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.”
—Joan Didion (via theparisreview)
May 2013
3 posts
Episode 3 Klout Scores Matter You Guys
The Only Podcast in the World
Episode 3 you handsome guys.
April 2013
8 posts
Social Media and Medium Fatness
The Only Podcast in the World
Episode 1: Nic, Dean, and Fletcher talk about social media and how Dean was once medium fat.
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”
—
Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 1954
“High up in the North in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak. When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by.”
—Hendrik Willem Van Loon
The Summer Day
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver
