So true
It’s amazing how common mental illnesses are, and how much they seem to be shied away from
On the run
I'm always doing a million things at once, always on the go,
but if I see something interesting, I'll be sure to let you know.
but if I see something interesting, I'll be sure to let you know.
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
— King S (2001), On Writing, Kindle edition, Loc. 3208.
Once again, King nails it and, once again, it’s true for many things. Don’t believe me? Here’s one example: running an ultramarathon.
9What is sorry?
Apologizing does not always mean you are wrong, it just means that you value your relationships more than your ego.
— Unknown.
I liked this when someone posted it on Facebook.
And then I thought, it could also mean you’re in an abusive relationship with a narcissist.
It could also mean that you’re valuing your relationship higher than the other party is valuing it.
It could also mean that they’re valuing their ego higher than your relationship, higher than you.
Just a thought…
… academic discourses work with propositional meanings of a decontextualised and abstract nature.
Northedge, A 2003, ‘Enabling participation in academic discourse’, Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 169-180.
Nathan Englander: “Write what you know” is the best and most misunderstood advice on writing. (via Big Think)
This reminds me of what Geraldine Brooks contributed to the ‘Writers on Writing’ column in The New York Times. The following quote appears on the second page:
Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know certain things. I know the feel of a newborn lamb’s damp, tight-curled fleece and the sharp sound a well-bucket chain makes as it scrapes on stone. But more than these material things, I know the feelings that flourish in small communities.
And I know other kinds of emotional truths that I believe apply across the centuries. I delivered my son in a modern hospital, but his birth was a bloody, protracted, life-threatening obstetrical emergency. Of what I know from this, which matters more? That the doctor used precision-engineered forceps, or that I was terrified of losing my child?
Source: Brooks, G 2001, ‘Timeless Tact Helps Sustain a Literary Time Traveler’, The New York Times, 2 July, viewed 6 March 2012, <http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/02/arts/02BROO.html>.
