It’s Friday, it must be fried eggs?
June 14, 2013
Something to cheer up your Friday…
Something to cheer up your Friday…
British poet Ian McMillan – aka The Bard of Barnsley – tweets every morning, mostly about his early morning stroll @IMcMillan. It’s amazing what you can say in just 144 characters. Things like…..
“Pull another morning from your almost endless box of mornings. Almost endless, but not quite. Don’t think about that. Just take the morning”.
A poem in 144 characters. Under the old UK system of weights and measures 144 was a ‘gross’. So that would be a gross poem, but apparently that’s not a complement in the US.
Have a curious day.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you. ~ Sartre
Have a curious day.
Here are Debbie Millman’s 10 easy steps for overcoming your creative blocks.
I’d also add three tips given to us by writer Sandra Deeble – have a hot bath in the middle of the afternoon, watch a black & white movie and make a chocolate cake.
Have a curious day.
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more.
The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.
Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading – that is a good life.
A day that closely resembles every other day of the past ten or twenty years does not suggest itself as a good one.
But who would not call Pasteur’s life a good one, or Thomas Mann’s?
Have a curious day.
From The Writng Life by Annie Dillard.
The provisional dates for The School of Curiosity ‘End of Summer School’ have been agreed as 18th, 19th, 20th October 2013. The event will take place in the stunning gardens of The Citadelle, Villefranche-sur-Mer, overlooking one of the most beautiful bays in Europe.
We hope to confirm the dates next Friday (14th June), so for now, just check the availability of flights….nearest airport Nice Cote d’Azure.
Have a curious day.
Books are great anyway, but especially great when you find something unexpected, like this photo found in a copy of Three Men in a Boat.
To look at more things found in books take a look at this little collection http://bit.ly/sbAhy8
Have a curious day.
Take a look at the image. No further words are necessary.
Have a curious day.
“The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone”. Alan De Botton.
Do your love-life a favour…leave the phone at home occassionally. Remember that eccentric thing you used to do….talking to each other?
Have a curious day.