thanksgiving used to be terrifying...
Friday, November 26, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
how to edit a magazine...
from The Atlantic's Twelve timeless rules for making a good publication... (in honor of their 153rd birthday) With technology, web, media revolutions all around us, some things don't change...
3. Don't over-edit.You will often estrange an author by too elaborate revision, and furthermore, take away from the magazine the variety of style that keeps it fresh7. A sound editor never has a three-months' full supply in his cupboard. When you over-buy, you narrow your future choice...11. Humor is precious and correspondingly hard to find. Most humor that reaches us is merely jocularity, and it is well to be jocular only when really funny.
Love number 3 (and if you are fortunate you have brilliant editors you trust who edit within an inch of the manuscript's life and make you look great as a result)
And number 7: true of writing... if you hoard your best material to use another time rather than at once, in this book, the one you're writing now, you end up with less. If you spend everything, use it all up, mysteriously the pantry fills up again...
Number 11: I think I like but it's giving me a little bit of a math headache because on the other hand I kind of don't know what it means
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Random Act of Culture in Macy's
The day before halloween, mingling in plain clothes amongst the crowds in Macy's, more than 650 singers from the Opera Company of Philadelphia burst into song...
can you watch this without your spirit soaring?
makes you want to shout, Hallelujah!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
latest extinct thing... deep thinking sacred space down time
How do we slow down and get uninterrupted deep thinking space back?
Number one? (Of course) Avoid technology.
And their most brilliant idea of all? For our cell phones to have sleeping bags.
Although, I rarely use mine. It's always asleep. I forget to wake it up. So mine doesn't need a sleeping bag it needs a cup of coffee. (Well, it's over 10 years old and so it needs a lot more than just coffee...)
To my surprise, I've avoided the iPhone--only because it's so beautiful. (So beautiful that I'd always be on it and missing things out there, etc.) So I keep my old phone that doesn't tempt me. (The draw back: no one can reach me and yesterday I almost missed a fabulous brunch with friends because of it... so any day now I may find myself with an iPhone. But if I do, I promise I'm getting a sleeping bag with it.)
Anyway, maybe on your Christmas list--a sleeping bag for your phone?
And then here's this great article too:
Interruption-free space is sacred. Yet, in the digital era we live in, we are losing hold of the few sacred spaces that remain untouched by email, the internet, people, and other forms of distraction. Our cars now have mobile phone integration and a thousand satellite radio stations. When walking from one place to another, we have our devices streaming data from dozens of sources. Even at our bedside, we now have our iPads with heaps of digital apps and the world's information at our fingertips.
more here
Friday, November 12, 2010
The Benefits of Tea
William Gladstone (former PM of Great Britain, 3 times between 1868 and 1894) said:
'If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited it will calm you.'
He had no comment on coffee.
Isn't it time to put the kettle on?
(This picture of course is not Gladstone but someone else who is far too perky for his own good)
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Traveler Alert: NO SNOW GLOBES ALLOWED through security
not a joke. saw this at LaGuardia last week on my way to Atlanta.
found out that snow globes are not allowed at any airport security checkpoints on account of them having "an undetermined amount of liquid" in them.
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