Live the questions now

In Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote, "You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now." And he said, "The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."

avoiding temptation...

"Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you." -- Sir Winston Churchill

coffee?

in our Swedish Signs for Fridays Series. Sorry I need to go and make some coffee immediately...

writing for children or grown-ups?

"You have to write whichever book it is that wants to be written. And then, if it's going to be too difficult for grown-ups, you write it for children." - Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) Thank Heaven for Madeleine L'Engle and her high view of children.

World-Wide Furry Bibles

Look! it's in Welsh! and .. Welsh, Korean, Croatian, Norwegian, Finnish, German, Danish Tiny Bears!

sign of the time

... in our Swedish Signs for Fridays Series

Eames Chairs & Uber Coolness

I was just in a cool soho loft being cool. And not only that, but adding to my coolness by sitting casually in one of these chairs. How cool they look and how cool you find yourself to be just sitting in them. They are of course the lounge chair and ottoman by Charles and Ray Eames... and there's an uber cool NYT article about other Design Gems like them which you can read, handily enough, right here.

Maira kalman: And the Pursuit of Happiness... again

The glorious Maira Kalman in her wonderful series for the times "And the Pursuit of Happiness" ... with her latest.