Archive for October, 2006
Garrison Keillor’s babble
by Ty Powers
Last week, I came across these provocative words listening to Garrison Keillor’s podcast, “The Writer’s Almanac”.
“I know that it is socially acceptable to write about war as an unmitigated horror, but subjectively, at least, it was not true. And you can feel its pull on men’s memories at the maudlin reunions of [...]
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Wit and Wisdom of 1953
Wit and Wisdom from Retail Store Operations Of The Methodist Publishing House 1953
Extracted and edited from the Retail Manual of 1953, found by Cole Wakefield in the UMPH library
DEDICATION
To the employees of The Methodist Publishing House – 1789 – 1953 – who dedicated their talents and services to the work of the organization through [...]
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Tying Knots
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and Hang on!
– Thomas Jefferson, a Knot Babble enthusiast
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C-R-E-A-T-I-V-I-T-Y
Poet Robert Frost once commented, “The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and doesn’t stop until you get to the office.”
Have you ever felt like just by walking into the office you lose energy? It’s hard to pinpoint where that feeling comes from. Sometimes it [...]
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interesting thought
i found this over at accidentalcreative.
If you want to be on the cutting edge, you must be willing to bleed.
Until you are, you are simply playing at what you do. If you want to do something truly great, however, you must be willing to put yourself out in the open – exposed and unprotected – [...]
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the artist’s way
i’ve been hearing lots of positive talk in recent days about a book called The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. amazon describes it as:
a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence [...]
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The day the world ended, God sat quietly alone in a huge room, alternately dozing off and turning the pages of a fat scrapbook. God could remember everything, and this no doubt saddened Him.
Far below Him there were, here and there, people floating in boats and still –many of them, anyway– praying. There were also [...]
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quick-cheap-innovative-good
lifehack.org has become one of my new favorite sites. it’s a daily digest offering pointers on productivity, getting things done, and lifehacks. lots of these pointers apply to what i do here at the office, and lots of them apply to my personal life as well.
here’s one tidbit i saw this morning. via the antidotes [...]
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I became a HUGE T.S. Eliot fan in college because of this quote: “Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.”
This post from 37Signals weblog Signal vs. Noise was better than anything I could have imagined writing today, so I’m just going to go with it. I hope it inspires you on a flat dreary Monday.
Inspiration is [...]
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Good Experience
We have all had good and bad experiences. We value vacations and trips to beautiful cathedrals. There is a reason Cubs fans continue year after year their pilgrimage to Wrigley Field despite the abysmal win-loss records. Going to Wrigley, the cathedral of Cubdom, is a memorable experience.
Mark Hurst of Good Experience is in the business [...]
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