Word Bumps

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/how-to-forget-paris/

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:56:23 -0500

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/how-to-forget-paris/:

She, too, was carroted down the rabbit trail of a hope-filled future shared with someone, only to discover her bed was left just as cold as the promises she’d so earnestly trusted.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-joy-of-thinking-differently/

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:57:33 -0500

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-joy-of-thinking-differently/:

To have such a hallowed idea, an idea that I didn’t even realize I had because I simply thought it was true, to have such a thing so completely re-organized, redistributed, a whole new sense of it forged was invigorating, intoxicating, making me delirious with possibility.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/fashion/exit-left-wordlessly.html

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:49:30 -0500

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/fashion/exit-left-wordlessly.html:

That was the last I ever heard from him. No message, no note. He wasn’t dead in a ditch. (Nobody needs a detective these days; Facebook activity is quite adequate as a paperless trail.) He was just – gone.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/16/facebook-gave-me-writers-block

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:20:13 -0500

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/16/facebook-gave-me-writers-block:

I no longer reach for the Facebook icon on my iPhone in the night as one might reach across the bed for a departed partner.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patricia-crisafulli/finding-purpose-embracing_b_1194089.html

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:08:49 -0500

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patricia-crisafulli/finding-purpose-embracing_b_1194089.html:

Then, a sudden gust drew my attention upwards to the branches bending and soughing in the wind – the most beautiful ballet I could imagine.

http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/12/the-dangerous-effects-of-reading/

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:40:56 -0500

http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/12/the-dangerous-effects-of-reading/:

Adding anything (not just your opinion) to the world is creating – writing, drawing, dancing (not line-dancing which is not art but instead some sort of long-term psychological annoyance stress test).

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/what-an-honest-job-interview-would-sound-like

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:24:22 -0500

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/what-an-honest-job-interview-would-sound-like:

I am an incompetent mess who lives in a perpetual state of self-doubt, forever questioning my ability to acclimate myself into society as a functioning, productive adult, something I repeatedly justify by asking aloud whether or not I even want to submit to the cultural hegemony that has prevented my parents from becoming satisfied and self-actualized human beings.

http://boingboing.net/2011/12/09/the-diagnosis.html

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:44:51 -0500

http://boingboing.net/2011/12/09/the-diagnosis.html:

I have breast cancer. A week ago, I had breast cancer, and the week before that, and the week before that. Maybe five, eight, even ten years ago, the first bad cell split inside me, secretly. But I didn’t know. This is how I arrived at knowing.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/why-ill-never-comment-on-your-facebook-status/

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:16:07 -0500

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/why-ill-never-comment-on-your-facebook-status/:

I have heard you persevere through impossible conversations, looking for words that would soften your message. Sometimes you do more harm than good trying to hold back what will hurt; some injuries can’t be avoided.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8b086300-0b20-11e1-ae56-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1dgXRKBj0

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:38:19 -0500

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8b086300-0b20-11e1-ae56-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1dgXRKBj0:

I’m big on sniffing books. The old Soviet ones really have this strong smell, reminding me, for some reason, of tomato soup in a cheap Soviet cafeteria.

http://www.themorningnews.org/article/what-i-didnt-write-about-when-i-wrote-about-quitting-facebook

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:05:14 -0500

http://www.themorningnews.org/article/what-i-didnt-write-about-when-i-wrote-about-quitting-facebook:

…one of those departures where you look away out of exhaustion with the moment, then when you look up find they’ve gone, vanished, as if they hadn’t been there at all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:20:51 -0400

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all:

But with that will, that work ethic, that strength, there was also sweet Steve’s capacity for wonderment, the artist’s belief in the ideal, the still more beautiful later.

http://thelitpub.bigcartel.com/product/book-2

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:02:45 -0400

http://thelitpub.bigcartel.com/product/book-2:

The list of accidents grew: a pebble cracked their windshield, a jam jar smashed on the kitchen tiles, a grocery bag burst – shattered glass floating in red wine and egg yolks.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316066524/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=simmakmon-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0316066524

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:53:03 -0400

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316066524/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=simmakmon-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0316066524:

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately – the object seemed incidental to this will to give oneself away, utterly.

http://www.projectswatches.com/m-and-co/10-one-4-black/

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:02:49 -0400

http://www.projectswatches.com/m-and-co/10-one-4-black/:

The late Tibor Kalman, founder of M&Co. began his legendary relationship with time in 1983.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html?_r=1&hp

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:18:35 -0400

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html?_r=1&hp:

“Whether it’s the pioneer in the Conestoga wagon or someone coming here in the 1920s from southern Italy, there was this idea in America that if you worked hard and you showed real grit, that you could be successful,” he said. “Strangely, we’ve now forgotten that.”

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004ISL3R4

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:23:42 -0400

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004ISL3R4:

Complexity can be tamed, but it requires considerable effort to do it well. Decreasing the number of buttons and displays is not the solution. The solution is to understand the total system, to design it in a way that allows all the pieces fit nicely together, so that initial learning as well as usage are both optimal.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679783342/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=simmakmon-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0679783342

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:27:44 -0400

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679783342/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=simmakmon-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0679783342:

The day is an epitome of the year. The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon is the summer.

http://rahulbijlani.com/essays/you-are-not-running-out-of-time-essay/

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:29:57 -0400

http://rahulbijlani.com/essays/you-are-not-running-out-of-time-essay/:

I had read that at 17, Bill Gates had already created his first successful business venture. At the same age, I hadn’t even figured out where to start. It didn’t make me weep, but it did make me worry. And so, incredibly, at 17 I genuinely wondered: was I running out of time?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178211966454607.html

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:38:41 -0400

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178211966454607.html:

There is no experience you’ve had that you were not at the absolute center of.