Lance told me about this boy who learned everything from books on the road and went to college at 12 and does all this cool origami paper folding.
He’s so cool and down to earth and happy. What an inspiration for following your heart and living life, simply.
Terry Goodkind
Just found out that the Gadspy by Earnest Vincent Wright contains 50,000 words and was written entirely without the letter ‘e’ (thank you John). Love stuff like that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_%28novel%29
The challenge of it excites me. Apparently it’s called a lipogram (Greek for “missing letter”). Wikipedia says “it’s a constrained writing or word game consisting of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is avoided — usually a common vowel, and frequently “e”, the most common letter in the English language.”
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Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
…
Alfred Tennyson
So today John at work sent me the coolest thing ever. It’s a 224 line palindrome. The entire poem reads backwards the same as it reads forward. Admittedly, it took me a second to catch on. crazy cool. http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/02/demetri-martins-palindrome-poem.html
Holding my new book, a Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity by WM. S. Coperthwaite (thank you Lance). Haven’t been this excited to read a book since Twilight. I know, seems like an insane comparison, but I can’t always explain why I like divergent things, I just do and that’s the way it goes. lol Couple lines so far from the book as I’ve cracked it open…
“It was just pas midnight when I slipped my canoe into the water at Duck Cove and headed due east, exactly as the instructions said, to the point of shore where he would meet me. ”
“My central concern is encouragement — encouraging people to seek, to experiment, to plan, to create, to dream. If enough people do this we will find a better way.”
one of the guys I work with (John) passed this to me. It made me think (which is always a good thing): http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2411.
Just ordered A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity by William Coperthwaite and it’s in. So now I get to go to the bookstore to pick it up tomorrow, which I also like (roaming around Barnes and Nobles). The book came recommended by a co-worker (Lance) as I was talking to another co-worker (Jamie) about how much I love when things are homemade.
Here’s the quick write-up: “A Handmade Life carries Coperthwaite’s ongoing experiments with hand tools, hand-grown and gathered food, and handmade shelter, clothing, and furnishings out into the world to challenge and inspire. His writing is both philosophical and practical, exploring themes of beauty, work, education, and design while giving instruction on the hand-crafting of the necessities of life. Richly illustrated with luminous color photographs by Peter Forbes, the book is a moving and inspirational testament to a new practice of old ways of life.”
Yay! I know what I’m doing this weekend.
People talk about change, but the changing part is wicked tough (the talking is easy). Today I stumbled onto this guy who explained it so well, what it takes to change. And he’s so cool about it. And he has a cat roaming in the background (haha): http://www.sensophy.com/how-to-take-action-and-avoid-living-an-unfulfilled-life/
“It is best to learn as we go, not as we have learned.” ― Anonymous