beautifully said
turns of phrase worth remembering, sentences that make you feel, or think, or laugh, or cry
beautifully said
It’s allowed me to cultivate the soil to suit my purposes—rather than having to adapt my garden to the soil I was given.
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
surrounded by the detritus of dashed hopes
The only sensible way to improve your writing is by echoing the work of other writers. Good artists copy and great artists steal quotes from Picasso.
Maggie Appleton • The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays
“You can only cook what’s in the fridge”
I found my return to scrolling to be profoundly uninteresting
It’s an ‘Artist’s Way’ fall, Embedded
Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.
Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.
-Jensen Huang
“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
― Georgia O'Keefe
There are a few ideas fermenting.
The Talks • Dennis Paphitis: “Life Without Some Excess, Forget It”
Great use of imagery language here.