December 2009
14 posts
Love this version of Auld Lang Syne, by Mairi...
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;...”
– William Butler Yeats
Confession: I love Tavi. Why couldn't I have been... →
Crow in the Snow
Crows are black birds and blackbirds are also, but a crow in the snow is so much the more so. If you’re pro-crow you proclaim his intellect, his resourcefulness, and the visual poetry of his somber silhouette on the calligraphy of the cornfield. But if it’s your cornfield, you have good caws to compose creative crowfanities when he arrives. Think of it as sharecropping: he gets the...
“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.”
– François Fénelon
Link to Charley Harper photo essay (and a key to... →
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less...”
– Bilbo Baggins
Library of Congress.
I’ve been there three times in the past three days. First time I was on a mission: to request digital reproductions of some archived images for one of my colleagues who is out of town. When I rose from the depths of my destination Metro station I found myself surrounded by suits and white marbly buildings that were nearly blinding in the bright sunshine. I wandered into two of the three...
Branding.
It’s one of those words that comes up a lot among people my age, i.e. the recently graduated and predominately unemployed. What’s your personal brand? How do you set yourself apart in a crowd, or a stack of resumes all hosting the same sans serif chunks of text rattling off laundry lists of “accomplishments”…? Why, you fuse yourself, your work and your interests...