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“The process of writing, editing, selling, editing and publishing a book is agonizingly slow, perhaps even slower for the blogger who is used to the immediate gratification of seeing work published immediately.”
— Claire Zulkey* * *
Amen.
“I have never missed a meditation in 40 years. I meditate once in the morning, and again in the afternoon, for about twenty minutes each time. Then I go about the business of my day. And I find the joy of doing increases. Intuition increases. Creativity increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.
- David Lynch on meditation (To be fair, he also used to go to the Bob’s Big Boy every day for seven years and eat a chocolate shake and drink four to seven cups of coffee with sugar for the rush!)
(via austinkleon)
Kenneth Koch talks to Mr. Rogers about feeling necessary in the world
I think all people would like to feel that they’re a necessary part of life. That they’re necessary in the world, and that life would be poorer if they weren’t in it. When you accomplish something, when you write good poetry, then I think you feel that the world would be slightly different if you weren’t in it. And that, I think, is part of what being needed is about.
Filed under: to be of use
(Source: youtube.com)
