May
11
i am bella
and smiling is my favorite
predictions from 1930 of what well-dressed men and women will be wearing in the year 2000.
my mom.
circa early 90’s.
Happy’s Mother’s Day!!
certain guys know exactly how to make me feel giggly and tounge tied.
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
CS Lewis (via vasta). Done and done.
Lewis is referring to what Kierkegaard calls the aesthetic mode of living, which relies on the tactics of rotation and repetition. Rather than living lives of deeper meaning, we cultivate distractions and affairs and pastimes, rotating through them and repeating them to stave off existential emptiness.
I don’t think I’m being dramatic when I say that the West’s response to the crisis of meaning in our lives has been this precise stratagem: “Wrap [our hearts] round with hobbies and little luxuries…”
And the web is a catalogue of this exchange.
(via mills)
May
10
Creatures of New Habits?
“Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. In fact, the more new things we try — the more we step outside our comfort zone — the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives.”
that was a close one.
So somehow, I accidentally logged out of tumblr yesterday - which I don’t think I have done since September 2007 - and subsequently locked myself out. It had to do with me having typed in an incorrect email address originally and then my cookies remembering my old password and on and on and on.
The point of my story is two fold; One, the realization that I am completely addicted to tumblr. The smart, funny posts. The news you don’t run into anywhere else - or the angle you hadn’t thought of before. The links. The music. The articles. The personal drama and humor. The photos. tumblr is hands down so much more thoughtful and sincere and positive than any other social networking site or blogging platform - because it’s such a community…if an odd, unlikely one.
Second, tumblr continues to be an utterly impressive labor of love. I know I babble on about its merits to everyone like a crazed disciple – but my devotion is completely warranted. I wrote in a quick note to the support email last night and then shut my laptop, figuring that as with most on line help services, I’d hear back in a day or two if ever.
This morning, I checked my email and realized Marc had responded to me within six minutes!! At 11 pm on a Friday night. When I still had an issue logging in this morning, he came through with another prompt solution and I am happily back up and running. Despite my hang-up being completely the source of my own clumsy fingers and slacking memory, they were diligent, resourceful and friendly.
Thank you for doing this. All of you - David and Marco and everyone on the inside for building this community with so much pride and integrity and so little unnecessary gimmick. Thanks for building a smart place for us to go to vent and learn and watch and be inspired.
But also, to all the people I follow and read semi regularly. The fact that I should so eagerly want to get back to your lives and thoughts and finds is surprising and a sincere compliment.
“John McCain presented his proposal, he says that over the summer we should have a gas tax holiday. For summer drivers the 18 cents-a-gallon federal gas tax should be lifted over summer. Or as it used to be called, Grandpa’s giving you five dollars!”
Bill Maher
“Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd.”
William Wordsworth
i love him more everyday.
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