March 2010
22 posts
“Born argues that deep sleep and dreaming “set the stage for the emergence of...”
– http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/why-we-need-to-dream/
Why We Need to Dream (New York Times) →
psychotherapy:
Why do we dream? As a chronic insomniac, I like to pretend that our dreams are meaningless narratives, a series of bad B-movies invented by the mind. I find solace in the theory that all those inexplicable plot twists are just random noise from the brain stem, an arbitrary montage of images and characters and anxieties. This suggests that I’m not missing anything when I lie awake...
Inspiration in advertising →
Feminism / Folk Tales of Pakistan: Heer-Ranjha →
writinggirl2writingwoman:
umalik:
Heer-Ranjha is one of the best known folk love story from South Asia. Even today in villages of Punjab people sit around traditional singers who recite this wonderful poetry and in metropolises it is converted into stage plays every now and then to make city-folks understand a complex love story in a way they can easily absorb.
Talking on folklores recently...
“He once said to me that he wanted to write to shut up the babble in his head. He...”
– Mark Costello on David Foster Wallace (via awritersruminations) (via libraryland)
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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing...”
– Sylvia Plath (via ilovereadingandwriting)
The iPad will bring an epidemic of people putting...
(via jhnbrssndn)
“We must overcome the notion that we must be regular…it robs you of the chance to...”
– Uta Hagen (via onherway) (via smashley) (via libraryland)
“A couple of years ago I wrote a blog about the blank page. The gist of it is...”
– BT heats up the dance floor at D.C.’s Ibiza | Washington Examiner (via torley)
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“You have three choices: put up with the whiners, write off everyone, or,...”
– Seth Godin has said this multiple times now. Each time I read it, it becomes truer, not by virtue of repetition, but transpired events and others willing to sayact.
Seth’s Blog
(via torley)
Facebook Profiles Reflect Actual Personality, Not... →
(via psychotherapy)
“when i get up in the morning… my real concern is to discover whether or not i’m...”
– LEONARD COHEN, 1964 (“if i’m not in a state of grace, i try to go to bed.”) (via cursivebuildings) (via singfoolsing)
