Daily Archives: March 13, 2013

[Intermezzo] I Don’t Have Beautiful Things to Write, Tonight

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Tonight, I don’t have beautiful things to write. I’ve a glass of Scotch in my hand and an ear vibrating from a cat’s purr. The words aren’t coming the way I want them to, anyway. They are halting and boring and clumsily misbehaving monsters. I should have known better. Why did I even try? They never mind me when I am out of sorts or blue. Words know when you are in no shape to order them into neat, poetic arrangements. They are intuitive to emotion, and easily scared away. The opposite of cats, really.

[Book Nerd Nonsense] E.L. James, Writing Advisor?

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Any aspiring professional willing to take writing advice from E.L. James is an idiot. Although her bank account is inspirational, her ability is not. The opposite direction is this way. —————> You are welcome.

E.L. James’ ‘Shades of Grey: Inner Goddess’: a writer’s journal [courtesy Los Angeles Times Books]

Daily Diversion #107: Slow Start to a Snowy Day

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Morning view.

Morning view.

That is snow on the roof of the low building above the truck. It was 70 degrees just 3 days ago.

An inadequate but satisfying breakfast.

An inadequate but satisfying breakfast.

When it is cold I could stay in bed all day. This morning, the siren’s call of the electric kettle was too strong.

"You will be successful in your career."

“You will be successful in your career.”

The universe is obviously trying to tell me something, in the form of this dark chocolate orange fortune cookie. The message? “Get to work, you lazy woman.”

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”-Confucius

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”-Jerome K. Jerome

“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”-Albert Einstein

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made,

What’s a sundial in the shade?”-Benjamin Franklin