Jan 11

Jan 2

books i took out of the library in 2011

This is kind of sad because it’s a short list! I know I have read titles that I did not get from the library (most notably Thinking Fast and Slow which is incredible), so they are not on the list, but still - the truth is I didn’t read nearly as much as I normally do this past year. It’s partly cos I’ve been busy falling in love, and partly because I’ve been reading more random stuff on the internet - something I want to change. Anyway, here’s the library list:

The Privileges/ Jonathan Dee

The Master Switch/ Tim Wu

Artscience / David Edwards

The Age of Wonder / Richard Holmes

Chasing the Sun/ Richard Cohen

Silent Thunder/ Katy Payne

Just Kids / Patti Smith

Overcoming Under-earning/ Barbara Stanny

Home, paper/ Patricia Zapata

True History of the Kelly Gang / Peter Carey

Rebels in Paradise/ Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

Conquistadora/ Esmeralda Santiago

The Swerve: How the world became modern / Stephen Greenblatt

Shibori : creating color & texture on silk / Karren K. Brito

The Power of Story : rewrite your destiny in business and in life / Jim Loehr

Dec 28

“http://hunch.com/”

A *beautiful* Treehouse in Bed-Stuy

“1. Work more and better
2. Work by a schedule
3. Wash teeth if any
4. Shave
5. Take bath
6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk
7. Drink very scant if any
8. Write a song a day
9. Wear clean clothes — look good
10. Shine shoes
11. Change socks
12. Change bed cloths often
13. Read lots good books
14. Listen to radio a lot
15. Learn people better
16. Keep rancho clean
17. Dont get lonesome
18. Stay glad
19. Keep hoping machine running
20. Dream good
21. Bank all extra money
22. Save dough
23. Have company but dont waste time
24. Send Mary and kids money
25. Play and sing good
26. Dance better
27. Help win war — beat fascism
28. Love mama
29. Love papa
30. Love Pete
31. Love everybody
32. Make up your mind
33. Wake up and fight” via brainpickings

Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s resolutions.

library ladder via the selby

Dec 20

As iron sharpens iron,
so one person sharpens another

Nov 5

“Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye
Ni kêra môgô
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni
Ni kêra môgô
[patience, patience, patience, is worth everything
patience, patience, patience is what is good
if you love someone]” nas & damian marley

Oct 26

occupy wall street rediscovers the radical imagination

“A void point is a critical transition between an old reality and a new one. That which was, has ended. Instead of regretting the loss, you accept the void. This is, for many persons, a challenging undertaking, because in the void point there is nothing that can be done.” ———

Oct 25

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Bob Dylan and Levon Helm

(via beautybeats)

last night on the f train i sat wedged between middle age man translating from written sanskrit and a middle age man writing hebrew. it was amazing.