January 2010
33 posts
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale.”
– Hans Christian Andersen (via mamapajama) (via libraryland)
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via fuckyeahhappy) (via beckawrites) (via healywu) (via chrysilla)
December 2009
36 posts
“I think one of the reasons why kids today have quarterlife crises is because...”
– Twenty Something: Instead of traveling, writing and trying to figure out what we want, should we be marrying and having babies? (via robot-heart) (via bmckinney) (via nerdgasms) (via chrysilla)
“Libra Horoscope for week of December 24, 2009
“I’m always...”
– http://www.freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/libra.html
“Art begins as soon as ‘I don’t like this’ turns into ‘this is not the way I...”
– “Motive for Metaphor” by Northrop Frye [essay] (via snesselfous)
(via libraryland)
“Quite often a flash of enlightenment will give you this message: Go back to...”
– Thaddeus Golas (via crashinglybeautiful)
So true.
(via libraryland)
“We have to be prepared to allow a myth to change us forever… [A] mythical...”
– Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth
“You cannot be a hero unless you are prepared to give up everything; there is no...”
– Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth
This packing thing is kicking my butt…but it’s interesting, looking through things and deciding what’s important and what really doesn’t matter.
“Like any mythical narrative, it described a mysterious and ineffable event that...”
– Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth
ireadintothings:
What is original, anyway? You just echo back ideas you’ve heard before. You’re just an echo of the centuries before.
Do Nothing but Read Day
libraryland:
incipit:
Found this cool event named “Do Nothing but Read Day” scheduled for Sunday, December 20th.
All details on the donothingbutreadday blog Event flyer here (.pdf)
via LibraryThing
This would be awesome to join in on…except that that’s my last packing-day before moving starts. Eep!
“The best mind-altering drug is the truth.”
– Lily Tomlin (via nihilnoetia) (via libraryland)
Save The Words →
libraryland:
electricollection:
Each year hundreds of words are dropped from the English language.
Old words, wise words, hard-working words. Words that once led meaningful lives but now lie unused, unloved and unwanted.
Today 90% of everything we write is communicated by only 7,000 words.
You can change all that. Help save the words!
If not for yourself, then for generations to come. Now...
ireadintothings:
-But what if all the excitement wears out and all our magic fizzles out? -I don’t think it will. But if it does, we’ll just have to be bored together, and that might be fun too.
I know I have a few librarians around here...
chrysilla:
nerdgasms:
caraobrien:
Good profession to get into or no?
I have Bachelor’s degrees in History and Political Science, and I graduated with honors so I could probably get into a decent Master’s program. But is it worth it? I’ve just heard that the job market is super tough and probably won’t be getting any better. Any insight?
Thanks!
Reblogged so hopefully more/different...
Jesus? Not so much the reason for the season. →
reblogged from chrysilla …interesting history lesson, some of it I was already familiar with, other bits are new…
Personally, I’m in the “Christmas is spend time with family, eat good food, and maybe swap presents if you want to give ‘em” camp… The holiday itself has nothing to do with my religion, but hospitality, feasting, and family most certainly do.
Things I've learned recently
Traveling with one’s feet up is less comfortable than it sounds
Despite not being too much further north, Atlanta is significantly colder than the Charleston area.
The Body Shop has nifty stuff, even if they did discontinue that hand-cream I found years ago.
I still have WAY too much packing to do…
tumblr is addictive.
Sir Isaac Newton is to blame for the “Bible is...
“The myth of the hero was not intended to provide us with icons to admire, but...”
– Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth
“It is often assumed that the early myths gave people in the pre-scientific world...”
– Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
That myth is more potent...”
– Robert Fulghum (via smashley) (via libraryland) (via chrysilla)
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I...”
– Douglas Adams (via kari-shma) (via blogalicious) (via chrysilla)
“Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting...”
– Douglas Adams (via libraryland)
“Mythology is an art form that points beyond history to what is timeless in human...”
– Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth
“Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and...”
– Willa Cather (via nihilnoetia) (via libraryland)
“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
– Alphonse de Lamartine (via overdosebabyblue) (via libraryland)
"Lessons" from Romance Novels
This topic comes up at work from time to time, usually when I get a major case of the giggles while processing the donated paperbacks for the “uncatalogued” rack. The list actually got fairly long, the other day, so I thought I’d finally share. So without further ado… Ten “Truths” Learned from Romance Paperbacks
Single, good-looking billionaires, princes,...
“Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and...”
– Rumi