December 2011
6 posts
The Light That's Growing From the Ground
Wow. A hell of a lot can change in a year. But I’ve come to learn that if you’re doing things right, the change doesn’t stop when you switch out your calendar. Keep healing. Keep growing.
…just know I found a better place to rest my head.
MT
Three For the Road
Still with roughly six-hundred pages left in Infinite Jest, I’m now fully-aware that I won’t be finishing any more books this year. So, before I get lost in the time-sucking insanity that is the next couple of weeks, I wanted to remark on the books that’ve made the most impact on me this year, and which chord they struck. I’m not one for year-end countdowns—I’m...
“I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a...”
– Jonathan Franzen (via libraryland)
“After completing a book you won’t be the person you were before trying to...”
– Sean Ferrell, “Pathetic email.”
This morning, I got in line at my daily coffee stop, roughly fifteen people ahead of me in the queue. About standard. My attention was in my book as I heard the woman behind me sigh, “This is going to take forever,” gesturing to move out of line and leave. She was a tourist—I knew it much before catching a glimpse of her California license as she paid.
“It...