To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores
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“Your life is not an episode of Skins. Things will never look quite as good as they do in a faded, sun-drenched Polaroid; your days are not an...”
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The Office inspired nail polish collection, by Essie.
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For the record, Ron Swanson’s hair is a nice blend of brown, sepia, and burnt sienna. Also, I’m not allowed to color in the presence of children.
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I have included in my life’s goals to visit as much locally-owned / independent bookshops as I can. Here’s my current list of the ones I’ve already visited:
-City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA
-Powell’s Books, Portland, OR
-King’s Books, Tacoma, WA
-Tacoma Book…
I’m not a nice person. It’s a bizarre thing to just proclaim like this, I know. But this is going somewhere.
I just finished reading Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In
and one of the central premises of her book is women are raised with certain stereotypical ideas about character and behavior…
Two of my favorite photos of Queen Elizabeth
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Despite ample evidence and countless testaments to the opposite, there persists a toxic cultural mythology that creative and intellectual excellence comes from a passive gift bestowed upon the fortunate few by the gods of genius, rather than being the product of the active application and consistent cultivation of skill. So what might the root of that stubborn fallacy be? Childhood and upbringing, it turns out, might have a lot to do.Maria Popova of Brainpickings.org shares a few things she learned while reading The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz.
THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
“The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.” - W. Somerset Maugham
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No matter how many times I see it, Big Ben still brings me to tears. I am so happy to be back in this amazing city even if it’s only for two weeks!
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