I was looking at what audiobooks are available by David Whyte, one of the authors mentioned by Jerry Colonna, when I came across this sentence in the description of Midlife and the Great Unknown:
On…
From the preface to The Active Life A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring by Parker J. Palmer:
It is a mistake to imagine that writers are experts on the things they write about—at least, i…
I watched Private Parts, the Howard Stern movie from 1997. It’s awesome. I really like it.
The thing that’s stayed with me, though, is how he’s just letting it all out, sharing his innermost, his lack …
What would you do, how would you behave, how would you feel, if you no longer had any:
“Men laugh with joy when a child is born, while the child cries alone in grief. Men weep in sorrow when their loved ones die, while the dead one rejoices alone.”
From Chin-Ning Chu’s excellent book…
“The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.”
Henry David Thoreau…
Here’s what I like about the clip of Jon Stewart’s recent appearance on the O’Reilly Factor over the rapper Common’s visit to the white house:
Jon Stewart looks visibly scared of Bill O’Reilly.
Even tho…
Video with Steven Pressfield answering reader questions, as part of the launch of Do the Work.
A few things stuck with me.
One is to just get down at the computer or typewriter or whatever every single …
Free Kindle edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s book Self-Reliance, courtesy of The Domino Project.
I hadn’t heard about it before, and I’ve just laid hands on my copy, so I can’t say much about it yet, b…
Scott Bedbury in A New Brand World:
“To their credit, the Portland, Oregon-based creative powerhouse Wieden & Kennedy—which has kept a relationship with Nike since the agency opened its door in 1981…
