March 2009
16 posts
Eric Carle →
I just added a wonderful blog to my reader. It’s the blog of Eric Carle, the author and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and over 70 other picture books. His infrequent posts have that happy innocent quality that belies his 80 years. Recent posts include a photo of his paint-covered work shoes and a photo of him sitting down to breakfast with his favorite food, blackforest honey.
Deepak Chopra on pessimism
First, it helps to understand the real nature of the problem. Imagine the self as a huge steamship, fully loaded, set on reaching a destination. When you set eyes on this ship in mid-journey, you don’t see it being loaded, leaving port and settling on where it wants to go. By analogy, when you see your friend, you meet her at a given moment, but she is sailing through her life fully loaded...
Top 10 Books that People Say They Have Read But...
Based on a “Guilty Secrets” survey conducted by UK organization Spread the Word:
1984 by George Orwell (42%)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (31%)
Ulysses by James Joyce (25%)
The Bible (24%)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (16%)
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (15%)
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (14%)
In Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust...
In a Charmed Life, a Road Less Traveled →
A wonderful account of a Nashville songwriter’s life with his wife who was made paraplegic 15 years ago.
We know that most people — strangers, anywhere — will knock themselves out to help us if we explain what we need. We know to say “Yes” to nearly everything because there is probably a way to do it. We know there is happiness available every day, most of it requiring more effort than...
