This article really hit home for me, especially the first and last sections.
Category Archives: World Wide Wonderfuls
Deep thoughts, with books and blogs.
I have an ongoing fascination with the way things intersect in our lives — how you do a new thing you’ve never done but Oh! completely unexpectedly it overlaps or intersects or has some deep resonance with something else you just did. I am particularly obsessed with this when it comes to reading (see “Good Things Come in Pairs” on this page) — it always feels like you somehow came to exactly the right thing at the right moment when those resonances happen.
Right now I am reading The Faraway Nearby, by Rebecca Solnit and yesterday I read this quote that just dug deep down into the heart of me:
The things that make our lives are so tenuous, so unlikely, that we barely come into being, barely meet the people we’re meant to love, barely find our way in the woods, barely survive catastrophe everyday.
Today I was reading Lizzy House‘s blog and saw this:
Dang, world.
Dear Fellow Quilters,
Crankin’ the Bee Gees. As one does.
Because of this post, because of this project, which is just so so so so SO… There are no words.
So super super super super cool.
I already loved George Saunders.
And then I read this quote about his writing process
and now I love him even more.
I highly recommend his stories. Wicked funny.
It’s possible I have never laughed so hard in my whole life.
You just must go read this post and all its comments. It will be 100% worth your time.
Cool things.
Jump ropes with hand-carved handles!!
If I have a teaching job next fall, all the little kiddos on my list will be getting these for Christmas!
Sewing Blogs
So I might be stuck right in the middle of one of those “I AM GOING TO SEW EVERYTHING!!!” frenzies and here are some blogs that are inspiring me to stay up super late shuffling through patterns and fabrics and ideaboards and…
Make Something
Made by Rae
Grainline Studio
True Bias
Little Betty
Sew Well
Dana Made It
Soozs
La Petite Josette
Tidy Tipsy
Vivat Veritas
Tansit-Isis Sews
Be Mine
Savory Stitches
(I will add these all to my links page eventually, I just haven’t had the time)
Hunger Games, the movie!
I swear I will be back sometime within the week to talk about how I felt about this movie, but in the meantime I’m going to post something I meant to post last week before it opened:
If you’re interested in seeing it AND HAVE READ THE BOOK (b/c these might be spoilery if not), I would encourage you to read Kristin Cashore’s post on the series overall. (Kristin Cashore = the author of Graceling and Fire, two books I loved as much as I loved the Hunger Games books!!!) I really love what she has to say PARTICULARLY what she has to say about Katniss’ ultimate choice (or decision). I’m SO TIRED of hearing people whine about the third book and how they feel Katniss becomes too Bella-like (passive) in it and I think that paragraph really touches on how that isn’t true.
I would also recommend the MonkeySee review of the movie which has a number of good points.
(My long-ago brief comments on the HG books are here and here. I reread book 1 before going to the movie on Sunday and I’m glad I did as I was remembering things more as a whole and it was nice to just think about things from the beginning again.)