"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward."
— James Thurber, in “The Bear Who Let It Alone”
(Source: asyoulikeitnow)
Welcome to Ronkville. Established: 2007 Population: 1 (though we get a lot of visitors passing through)
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The spring day lasts
visitors Go ahead, ask me a question.
Click the timestamp to go to the full post or source. And read The Ronkville Morning Bugle to keep up on what news is buzzing around our little hamlet today.
The spring day lasts
a little longer
around water
~ Issa
visitors Go ahead, ask me a question.
May 20, 2013
May 19, 2013
"If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
— Edward Hopper
(Source: spitefulsoup)
May 18, 2013
"Being against evil doesn’t make you good."
— Ernest Hemingway
(Source: phantoms-and-nautical-daydreams)
May 18, 2013
"One great advantage which poetry has over prose—one sense in which, we might even say, it is considerably more beautiful—is that it fills up space approximately three times as rapidly"
— James Thurber
(Source: piqeue)
May 16, 2013
"There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors."
—
Born: May 16, 1929, Baltimore Died: March 27, 2012,
Poet, activist, and MacArthur “genius.” Adrienne Rich was born in 84 years ago today. In 1997 she turned down the National Medal for the Arts in a protest against the disparity of justice in America.
May 13, 2013
"I’m not young enough to know everything."
— J.M. Barrie
May 11, 2013
"Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day."
— yes, F. Scott Fitzgerald got it right - “in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
May 10, 2013
"
You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories; these castles are our memories and inventiveness made tangible. So part of us believes that when the tide starts coming in, we won’t really have lost anything, because actually only a symbol of it was there in the sand.
Another part of us thinks we’ll figure out a way to divert the ocean.
This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won’t wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.
"—
Anne Lamott - author of Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Grace (Eventually), Plan B, Traveling Mercies, and Operating Instructions, as well as seven novels, including Rosie and Crooked Little Heart.
May 9, 2013
"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it."
May 8, 2013
"So what? All writers are lunatics!"
—
Cornelia Funke
May 7, 2013
"I started at the top and worked my way down."
—
Orson Welles, on his film career.
May 6, 2013
"
Dear Mr. Shannon,
Just wanted to let you know that another day has passed and I didn’t use any of the algebra you taught me.
That makes 16, 790 days in a row. (Multiplication I do use.)
"— KR
May 6, 2013
"Organized people are just too lazy to look for things."
— KR
May 5, 2013
May 4, 2013
"
Dear Algebra,
Please stop asking me to find your X.
She’s not coming back. Get over her.
— KR
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