We’re all responsible for the awesome

by JS on May 7, 2012

I recently read Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist. Among other things, it offers a manifesto and advice for creative types. The big message is get off your ass and make stuff. I liked this list, because I think it (…)

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I have mail, maybe

by JS on April 21, 2012

I took it as a good sign when a friend said to me the big change she noticed when I left my job was I that it took me longer to respond to email.  This new behavior wasn’t automatic on (…)

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“We do not deal with one another as soul to soul”

by JS on March 18, 2012

From Marilynne Robinson’s Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred: Simultaneously, and in a time of supposed religious revival, and among those especially inclined to feel religiously revived, we have a society increasingly defined by economics, and an economics increasingly reminiscent (…)

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“real life is only one kind of life”

by JS on February 11, 2012

Are my stories true, you ask? No, they are imaginary tales, containing fantastic characters and events. In real life, a family doesn’t have a child who looks like a mouse; in real life, a spider doesn’t spin words in her (…)

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2011 in photos

by JS on January 4, 2012

[Click on the grid to see a larger version, or click on these links to see larger versions of individual photos: 1. snowy (8/365), 2. snow day, again (32/365), 3. starling (62/365), 4. gray day (90/365), 5. prowling (150/365), 6. (…)

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