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Category Archives: Curiosity

Reading as a Way of Life

Thursday, July 16, 2009

“My heartfelt belief was that all meals should be eaten hunched over a desk with your nose in a book and everything you were eating chopped up and eaten out of a bowl with a spoon, the better to scoop it up without having to lift your eyes from the page.”
~ Polly Horvath, The Corps [...]

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Style Statement Hero

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Thanks to the Style Statement blog for posting an article I wrote called “Style Statement Hero.”

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Real Adventures with Imaginary Maps

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Oh, maps … oops. Sorry, I had to stop and wipe the drool off my keyboard. If you want to hypnotize me or calm me down, just shove a map in front of my face. My eyes will glaze, I’ll acquire a foolish grin, and my hand will reach involuntarily toward the map.
And if the [...]

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Simple Ways to Rejuvenate

Monday, May 11, 2009

Need a lift? Freshen up by taking mini-holidays throughout the day.
What gives you a hit of joy? Perhaps it’s watching a three-minute digital slide show of your five-year-old. Or reading today’s post from a blogger who’s guaranteed to make you laugh. Or unscrewing the lid of a vial of lavender oil.
Consider the physical nature of [...]

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Living with Questions

Thursday, May 7, 2009

“In a field
I am the absence
of field.”
~ Mark Strand, Keeping Things Whole, Reasons for Moving…

A question is like an empty space. We ask. We wait. We wonder. We make room.
We stop resisting.
In the process, by creating a nothing with a curling, spiraling question mark at its heart, we fall open.
We become a vessel, ready. We [...]

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