Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. | |
― Socrates | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | #45 Is The Inverse |
2018 | A Message To The White House Press Corps |
2017 | Eeny Meeny Miny Moe |
Binge, Binge, Binge | |
2016 | Feeling Warm Yet? |
Four Documentaries | |
2015 | Just Like All The Others |
2014 | In My Own Vanity |
2013 | Filled With Words |
2012 | Lectio Auget Existentiae Meae |
2011 | Lied Lately? |
2010 | Born To Work At Faux News |
Lost Again (Uh, Make That Still) | |
Qui Genus Humanum Ingenio Superavit | |
They’re Back… (Part 1) | |
Posts Tagged ‘Writing’
Books And Blogs
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, Writing, tagged Experience, Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, Socrates, Time, Writing on November 21, 2020| 2 Comments »
Does Blogging Count?
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Writing, tagged Albert Camus, Fiction, Lies, Philosophy, Quotes, Truth, Writing on October 17, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. | |
— Albert Camus | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | None Absolutely Certain |
Destroying The Republic | |
2018 | Maps For Those Difficult Times |
2017 | A True American Hero |
Or Desserts | |
2016 | What #AmnestyDon Is Really Afraid Of |
2015 | What Are You Doing? |
2014 | The Ideal Man |
2013 | Daring Ripples |
2012 | Evermore |
2011 | Unpredictable Opportunity |
2010 | Giants Fall In Game 2 (1 to 6) – Leave PA With 1-1 Split !! |
Appropriated To Her Being
Posted in Quotes, Writing, tagged Emily Dickinson, Jabberwocky, Kiowa, Navajo, Navarre Scott Momaday, Quotes, Romeo and Juliet, The Dead, The Gettysburg Address, The Twenty-Third Psalm, Wallace Stevens, Writing on September 11, 2020| Leave a Comment »
At first she thought the writing would be easy. She was extremely confident in her ability to dream, to imagine, and she supposed that expressing her dreams in words, in writing, would be entirely natural, like drawing breath. She had read widely from the time she was a child, and she knew how to recognize something that was well written. She admired certain lines and passages so much that she had taken complete possession of them and committed them to memory. She could recite “The Gettysburg Address” and “The Twenty-Third Psalm.” She could recite “Jabberwocky” and Emily Dickinson’s “Further in summer that the birds” and Wallace Stevens’s “Sunday Morning.” She knew by heart the final paragraph of Joyce’s “The Dead,” and if challenged she could say in whole the parts of both Romeo and Juliet. And she knew many Kiowa stories and many long prayers in Navajo. These were not feats of memory in the ordinary sense; it was simply that she attended to these things so closely that they became a part of her most personal experience. She had assumed them, appropriated them to her being. | |
But to write! She discovered that was something else again. | |
— Navarre Scott Momaday | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | All In Good Time |
Day 13: Pause & Resume | |
Ghrelin And Leptin | |
2018 | Gratitude And Warmth |
Remembering Loss, Sacrifice And Service | |
Making Little Ones Out Of Bigger Ones | |
2017 | Never Forget |
2016 | It’s All Greek To Me (Well, Latin Actually) |
2015 | Truism |
2014 | Thank You |
2013 | Really |
2012 | Ordinary Five Minutes Longer |
2011 | The Wealth Of Sons (And Daughters) |
Stand First
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Writing, tagged Henry David Thoreau, Living, Philosophy, Quotes, Vanity, Writing on August 27, 2020| Leave a Comment »
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. | |
– – Henry David Thoreau | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Tough Values |
2018 | I’m Still Here |
Day 31: A Calendar Month | |
2017 | Start Typing |
2016 | Just Saying (Nothing) |
Thought Of You | |
Saldaga (“As I’ve Lived”) | |
2015 | A Terrifying Cycle |
2014 | Rights |
2013 | Do Bold Things |
2012 | Seven Causes |
2011 | I Feel A Tingle Coming On |
Insensitive To Silence
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Language, Navarre Scott Momaday, Philosophy, Quotes, Silence, Writing on August 17, 2020| 3 Comments »
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence. | |
— Navarre Scott Momaday | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Judging Success |
2018 | Something Else |
Day 21: 10% Loss | |
2017 | Courage |
2016 | Don’t H8! — I’m With Her!! |
2015 | $20 Anyone? |
2014 | And Yet I Still Study |
2013 | Use Your Own |
2012 | Strengthen Freedom |
2011 | Attrition = A Lack Of Imagination |
2010 | Mind The Fire, Love |
Just Beyond My Reach… | |
Even A Life Of Quiet Desperation! | |
Acts Of Courage | |
And The Same Goes For Blogs / Posts
Posted in Quotes, Reading, Writing, tagged Blogging, Books, Meaning, Quotes, Reading, W. Somerset Maugham, Writing on July 11, 2020| 2 Comments »
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. | |
–– W. Somerset Maugham | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Not Enough |
2018 | One Thing We Do Know |
2017 | Preservation |
2016 | Going Back |
2015 | Just For Today |
2014 | Reaching For Destiny |
2013 | Still Just Passing Through |
2012 | Live Or Die |
2011 | On Secession |
2010 | A Rocky Weekend |
Insensitive To Silence
Posted in Quotes, tagged False Security, Language, Navarre Scott Momaday, Quotes, Silence, Words, Writing on May 9, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence. | |
— N. Scott Momaday | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Don’t Be Small |
2018 | Persistence |
2017 | Are You A Loser? |
2016 | Constitution And Conscience |
2015 | Separate, Fearful And Imprisoned |
2014 | Something Worth Making |
2013 | Absolutely |
2012 | Can Do |
2011 | Wise Criticism |
Why Are So Many Of My Posts Simply Quotes?
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Writing, tagged Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Writing on April 1, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? | |
— Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
[Usually, because their authors are so much better writers than I am. But I do keep trying… No matter how problematic it is for you to read my original thoughts. LoL — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Two Books |
2018 | Prime Example = #45 |
2017 | Building On |
2016 | Dueling Heroes |
2015 | Remarkable Creations |
2014 | Measured Faith |
2013 | April Fool, n. |
2012 | Faith, Ego And Patriotism |
As It Happens | |
2011 | What Counts |
Write For Yourself
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Writing, tagged Philosophy, Public, Quotes, Self, Writing on February 25, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. | |
– Cyril Connolly | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | I’m Actively Irresponsible |
2018 | I Will Love You… Forever |
2017 | Pebbles In Your Shoe? |
2016 | Resolute Will |
2015 | Absorbed And Civilized |
2014 | Relax And Lead |
2013 | Location, Location, Location |
2012 | Are You Really Good? |
2011 | Relatively Objective, Anyway |
I Think I’ve Just Been Argoted
Posted in Education, Humor, Quotes, Science and Learning, Writing, tagged Argot, Catchwords, Clubs, Education, Humor, Linguists, Quotes, Steven Pinker, Writing on November 13, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Every human pastime — music, cooking, sports, art, theoretical physics — develops an argot to spare its enthusiasts from having to say or type a long-winded description every time they refer to a familiar concept in each other’s company. The problem is that as we become proficient at our job or hobby we come to use these catchwords so often that they flow out of our fingers automatically, and we forget that our readers may not be members of the clubhouse in which we learned them. | |
— Steven Pinker | |
[Apologies to all you linguists out there. I believe I just turned a noun into a verb. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Good-Bye AG Jeff Sessions |
2017 | On Our Wall (Part 2) |
2016 | I Beg The Question |
2015 | By Their Fruit |
2014 | Proven Worth |
2013 | From Missouri |
2012 | Recipe To Write: Start With One Aching Urge |
2011 | Ip And Rib |
Real Things | |
2010 | Final Competition |
In All Its Messy Complexity
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Writing, tagged Complexity, Facts Still Exist, Jennifer Egan, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Time Magazine, Truth, Writing, Writing To Preserve Democracy, Writing Well on March 16, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Writers tend to fare badly under autocrats. Dictators understand very well that the strength of thought and analysis that literature embodies is a threat to the mind control that is an essential feature of tyranny. In countries like China, Russia, Turkey, Myanmar and Bangladesh, writers are routinely jailed or killed for creating work their governments find threatening. For American writers, the reality of such scrutiny and peril can be hard to fathom. We need to write now, write well — tell the truth in all its messy complexity. It’s our best shot at helping to preserve a democracy in which facts still exist and all of us can speak freely. | |
— Jennifer Egan | |
From her opinion piece / editorial: “Facts Still Exist“ | |
Appearing in: Time Magazine | |
dtd: 24 Dec / 31 Dec, 2018 (Person of the Year, double issue) | |
It also appears online at: http://time.com/5475490/writers-truth-democracy-jennifer-egan/ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Danger = Opportunity |
2017 | True And Great |
Sand At The Beach | |
2016 | There Is A Difference Between Dangerous And Frightening |
2015 | Always A Goal |
2014 | Standing Strong |
2013 | Shaken And Stirred |
The Bird With The Broken Wing | |
2012 | Friends In High Places |
2011 | Objective Independence |
Let Us Dare
Posted in Leadership, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Daring, Leadership, Philosophy, President John Adams, Quotes, Reading, Speaking, Thinking, Timidity, Writing on December 9, 2018| 2 Comments »
The true source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think. . . . . Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. | |
— President John Adams | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Two Good To Be Real |
Secrets | |
2016 | Learning Subtle Differences |
2015 | Dog Eat Dog World? |
2014 | And Sometimes Blogs About It |
2013 | Outside-In |
2012 | They Are All Perfect |
2011 | Delegation – The “How-To’s” |
2009 | Diet Update and Other Bits & Bobs… |
And Blog Posts, Too
Posted in Quotes, Writing, tagged Books, Ideas, Michael Cunningham, Paper, Quotes, Writing on June 17, 2018| 2 Comments »
One always has a better book in one’s mind than one can manage to get onto paper. | |
–– Michael Cunningham | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Just Doin’ It |
2016 | Definitely Not Bell Shaped |
2015 | Dreadful Pity |
2014 | Worse Than Useless |
2013 | Personal Prisons |
2012 | So, Not Yet Then |
2011 | Real Love |
Not Sure Anyway…
Posted in Quotes, Writing, tagged Ideas, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Quotes, Stephen King, Writing on June 16, 2018| 1 Comment »
We are writers, and we never ask one another where we get our ideas; we know we don’t know. | |
— Stephen King | |
From his book: “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Forms Of Conservation |
2016 | Oh, So Lacking |
2015 | e pluribus unum |
2014 | Nothing So Far Removed |
2013 | Positions |
2012 | Two Errors |
2011 | Long Live The King! |