“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”
- Georgia O’Keeffe
@okeeffemuseum
Link in profile for the best of The Marginalian this week, in a single place – @prentishemphill on how patterns change, astronaut @colchrishadfield's antidote to despair, and the lost Italian art of sprezzatura: living with ease and openness to wonder. (Which I realize with a kind of gulp is my 1,011th — that is, one thousand and eleventh — weekly... See more
In 1995, an unlikely friendship began on a Tennessee farm when a horse named Charlie met a goat named Jack. When the 40 year old horse eventually went blind, Jack took it upon himself to become his permanent seeing-eye guide for the next sixteen years. He would gently nudge Jack toward water and food while slowing his own gait so his friend could... See more