April 2012
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MOVED::
sparkandwander.tumblr.com
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“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
March 2012
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“Either I am loathsome to others, I have decided, or else I shall be a beacon of...”
– Jack Kerouac (via brainpickings)
February 2012
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i like to make make make
maples and bananaes
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“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to...”
– T. S. Eliot
“Your 20’s are your ‘selfish’ years. It’s a decade to immerse yourself in every...”
– Kyoko Escamilla (a.k.a Brain-Food) (via elizabeth517)
Damn. Leave it to a good ol’ Tumblr quote to remind me I need to make my life a wild adventure.
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cities i must visit
(in no particular order)
Portland, OR
Seattle, WA
São Paulo, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Santorini, Greece
Istanbul, Turkey
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Marrakech, Morocco
Lisbon, Portugal
Barcelona, Spain
Melbourne, Australia
to be continued
essential life rule: leave the country at least once a year
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“Creativity isn’t magic. It starts out simply enough — you’re copying and then...”
– Kirby Ferguson, creator of “Everything is a Remix,” quoted in a CNN piece on DJ Spooky (Kirby and I are hosting a panel at SXSW this March)
an unfebruary first
Had a “blah” day, feeling that things in my life are off kilter. Unseasonably warm weather called for an evening remedy of quality time with the City. Wandered through the East Village, LES and then Chinatown, reacquainting myself with the streets and finding new orientation, discovering new hole-in-the-wall restaurants and having pleasant conversations with strangers.
Lessons...
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“When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your...”
– Steve Jobs
January 2012
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"whatever you are, be a good one."
a designer designs.
a writer writes.
a photographer photographs.
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as january comes to a close
Organizing, consolidating, prioritizing. 2012 is already becoming the year I get better at life.
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profound
Facebook friend’s status: life is so fragile, even amongst the strongest of us.
A comment in response: And yet conversely, life is so strong inside even the most fragile of us.
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humbling and opening yourself to intelligence
I was stuck in the waiting room at a doctor’s office for over an hour tonight, due to scheduling conflicts. Ended up chatting with another patient, who would also be running late to yoga class. Hers, Bikram, mine, Vinyasa. I asked her about Bikram, sharing what I had heard. And in engaging with her, I realized something.
This girl listened to me voice my concerns about yoga, tell her about...
“If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition.
All you have...”
– Barbara Cook
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confession:
Am irrationally happy because I am wearing a lime green shirt, bright red cardigan, and big blue necklace. Color is the simplest way to be daring.
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“A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses it to come to a...”
– Alain de Botton on false standards and reclaiming the metrics of success.
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things i like today
making words up, photos of celebrities spotted at airports, airy songs, hearing someone eloquently express an emotional reaction to an experience, tuning out clutter: purging, organizing {hint: it opens up room for you to listen first to your heart}, punchy colors, having time.
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“If we fail at this point, it’s an issue of will.”
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things i think about
Been thinking a lot lately about personal values and how they play into interpersonal communication and fostering peace and positive change.
It is important to recognize your deepest desires and why you do what you do. But, more important, you must remember that your strongest personal values are not the same as everyone else’s.
Be cautious of urging other people to live by your personal...
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“With growing up in general there’s more bad stuff, but also more good...”
– Tavi Gevinson
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No more yes. It's either HELL YEAH! or no. →
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“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
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best decision of 2012 so far
Living day by day, without stressing about the urgency of goals and getting shit done.
Ironically, I am not only much happier, but also much more productive this way.
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“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
– Shakespeare
welp.
Nothing like traveling to another country for two weeks to completely eff up your sense of balance, home, goals, values, life direction, etc. But, wheee…the world is once again my oyster.
What a challenge to continually open your mind to the world and the road ahead of ya.
Do we ever have it all figured out? (Nah…)
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