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“Superior gardens are composed of Glooms and Solitudes and not of plants and trees.” — Ian Hamilton Finlay “I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Quotes
Bricks & Dinos
(1) Bits Of Beauty Amidst The Gloom In ‘Building Stories’ (NPR) (2) Review: Building Stories by Chris Ware (The Guardian) (3) The Google Doodle tribute to Winsor McCay and the Continue Reading →
Weekend 228.0 (‘Integrity of Purpose’)
(1) Nelly Furtado – “Feels So Close” Acoustic on SiriusXM Hits1 (2) I’m also digging “Overwhelmed” by Tim McMorris (3) A quote from Walt and the Promise of Progress City Continue Reading →
Evidence of things not seen…
The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything it has to face without wavering. If we take this view, life becomes one great romance, a Continue Reading →
Roused by ‘Julia’
Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me. — George Orwell I haven’t written about politics (and have been happier for it) but have to mention Continue Reading →
Avant le déluge
If you are a student of history (or if you ever read Berlin by Jason Lutes) this quote from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard just gave you chills. Paris has a strange atmosphere Continue Reading →
Weekend 219.0
So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light. – Vincent Van Gogh (1) How cities fail their cyclists in different ways (2) Continue Reading →
Weekend 215.0 (Inventors Edition)
(1) The Nucleus of the Digital Age: In pursuit of hydrogen bombs, a math genius and a brilliant tinkerer in Princeton developed the modern computer (WSJ) (2) A related quote Continue Reading →
Speed of sound…
“But indifference is not a virtue. And neutrality is not a value. A cool box building has no place in this world–the world is enriched not by neutrality or indifference, Continue Reading →
Weekend 213.1 (Memento mori)
(1) A Supreme Confidence: A level-headed leader of men and nations—Eisenhower is revered today by both conservatives and liberals (WSJ) “Despite the spate of revisionist histories in recent decades, Eisenhower Continue Reading →