Stories Told Test
Stories Told Test
Comprehending Time, Passing Through a Wall
Explaining to a seven-year-old how to tell when 5 hours had passed, I pointed to the clock. No, she said. I know how to tell time, but I don’t comprehend it. How long is it? What can I do in five hours? I was almost 70 then and I couldn’t comprehend time either. Hours, yes. But I was in the decades. How long my life had been—how long anything had […]
As long as you have two or fewer, your ducks are always in a row.
The Covert Comic
On the problem of school library visits being limited to 3 books every 2 weeks when each book is finished in a day or two.
What I need are books that can survive me for two weeks.
Carolyn, age 8
The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
New followers emulate the followers, not the leader.
Nurture the followers because that values the movement, not the leader.
Dereck Sivers from his TED Talk, How to Start a Movement
Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving a Wider Audience
Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving a Wider Audience is a wonderful collection of letters worth reading. Inspiring, funny, confused, and courageous. Letters of Note is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos. Scans/photos where possible. Fakes will be sneered at. Updated as often as possible; usually each weekday. Reading such wonderful missives might help inspire you to write, or absolve you of guilt because others […]
I do not mean any disrespect to Oprah. A friend of mine once meant disrespect to Oprah, and all his window treatments turned on him.
Alexandra Petri, Compost, Washington Post, 2011
Design is the first sign of human intention.
William McDonough
I don’t think I need a birthday this year. I seem to be quite tall enough.
A rather tall 3 year old on her upcoming 4th birthday
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Sir Barnett Cocks (1907-1989)
Clerk of the House of Commons