March 2012
“So sadness, although it is not fun and is not pleasant, it does sharpen the mind...”
– Jonah Lehrer, On the link between depression and creativity. I need to try to make the most of my highs and lows this way.
Extending the Narrative →
Did you wake up fresh today, a new start, a blank slate with resources and opportunities… or is today yet another day of living out the narrative you’ve been engaged in for years?
For all of us, it’s the latter. We maintain our worldview, our biases, our grudges and our affections. We nurse our grudges and see the very same person (and situation) in the mirror today that we did...
Luc Sante on the Benefits of Self-Editing →
One of the means to assure such things is constant rereading. I reread from the top—or some similar landmark if the work is long—whenever I take a significant break from writing, and that doesn’t just mean overnight but includes eating lunch, going to the bathroom, answering the phone and searching for elusive facts.
Rereading not only ferrets out problems, but it also ensures continuity...
DEFEND NEW ORLEANS: Louisiana's ambitious coastal... →
defendneworleans:
On an unseasonably warm winter morning, Earl Armstrong Jr. eases his airboat out of the slip, past a fishing crew hacking up a shark on the pier and a canal strung with hunting camps on stilts, into the broad waters of West Bay. Armstrong, 67, kills the airboat’s engine and, looking around,…
Sign the petition for a streetcar down St. Claude
defendneworleans:
The U.S. Department of Transportation is giving out $500 million in competitive TIGER IV grants for transportation projects across the country and we want some of that money for New Orleans. Our very own Regional Transit Authority wants to bring a streetcar down St. Claude Avenue to Poland Avenue and they’ve got their eye on the TIGER. The more community support that exists...
“Production is rooted in the material world. It values things over ideas, making...”
– Ellen Lupton, The Designer as Producer 