Human Slightly Broken

May 31st 2010

In praise of standing still

Reblogged from bobulate|65 notes

bobulate:

Jonathan Harris:

When you move around so fast and so much, bits of you flake off and stay everywhere you stop, and if you go too fast you get thin and confused and it’s hard to remember who you are or where you’re from because you’re so many people in so many places at once, all of them blending into each other and all of them blurring into nostalgia, and to get yourself back you need to stop moving and wait for the pieces to wander back into your town and your head and your body, and then you begin to remember and once you remember then you can get back to moving.

Or, in praise of a return to moving.

After a year of heavy travel, which was wonderful, I’m anchoring down with hopes of finding home again. 

Posted at 1:21pm and tagged with: Jonathan Harris, bobulate, moving, travel, home,.

May 22nd 2010

Liz + Zinsser

Reblogged from bobulate|19 notes

Liz Danzico’s bobulate has become, for me, a regular destination for waking up and thinking about things worth a damn, which hopefully translates into making things worth a damn. And it really does feel like I’m singing when I try to make those things. Thanks for sharing this Liz.

William Zinsser on finding enjoyment in making things:

You should paint like a man coming over the top of the hill singing. —Robert Henri

That’s a quote he took down in a commencement address given by David McCullough in a small Connecticut town. He continues:

Amen. That’s also how you should write, sing, dance, draw, sculpt, act, play an instrument, take a photograph, design a building, live a life.

That’s also how you should design, cook, map, teach, drive cars, present things you make, consider, run, study, walk dogs, invent, eat, get lost, travel, chart, think. At least.

Posted at 6:35pm and tagged with: inspiration, quotes, bobulate, zinsser,.