Happy Easter

1911.

Piggies

What's in between Greek and Celtic?

Pure

"A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity  At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes." -R.S. Thomas

Now

"What is love? 'tis not hereafter,
Present mirth hath present laughter:
What's to come is still unsure.
In delay there lies no plenty,
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty:
Youth's a stuff will not endure."
-Shakespeare

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Also: good NPR story here.

Sometimes It's Hard

"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn." -Louis Adamic

Early Mornings

"Awake the mind's hopeless so 
At a quarter to six I rise
And run 2 or 3 miles in
The pristine air of a dark
And windy winter morning
With light rain falling
And no sound but the pad
Of my sneakers on the asphalt
And the calls of the owls in
The cypress trees on Mesa Road
And when I get back you're
Still asleep under the warm covers
Because love is here to stay
It's another day and we're both still alive." -Tom Clark

Live Bravely

"I have as much freedom as I take." -Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal

Another Co-op Video!

See the original here:

Not Exactly Promising...

"The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer ... Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repair but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you." -a recently discovered letter from Oscar Wilde to an aspiring writer.

Prepsters

"I went and got khaki pants, a crew neck sweater, button down shirt, topsiders and a headband...ready to walk around." -Katie Couric and Tina Fey talk about attending UVA. Wahoowa.

Stretch

Bold Boulders

Not sure which is more surprising: that boulders is misspelled, or that boulders have character.

Seen on Diamond Drive in Los Alamos.

Dinner

"I know you're happy in the kitchen and the meal you're cooking is the best meal we ever ate together. I know  you would scald yourself and not complain. I feel the greatest peace and joy sitting in the dining room listening to you rustling about..." -Henry Miller

SW

"The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceeded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based." -Dr. Carl Sagan

St. Pat's

"Here's to you and yours and to mine and ours. And if mine and ours ever come across to you and yours, I hope you and yours will do as much for mine and ours as mine and ours have done for you and yours."
-Irish toast

Just Gum

Change

"Well, that was life. Gladness and pain...hope and fear...and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to let the old go and take the new to your heart...learn to love it and then let it go in turn. Spring, lovely as it was, must yield to summer and summer lose itself in autumn. -Anne of Ingleside.

Holy Cow

33 days?! Yikes.

Context

"Somewhere along the path, running became the canvas upon which I documented my life." -Dagny Scott

Little by Little

"But, you know, you put an ounce in a bucket each day, you get a quart." -writer John McPhee

Amends

"It was easy to forgive, so much harder to be forgiven." -Stephen Dunn

Fascination

"You would fall quite flat before her charm and personality ... she dresses quite atrociously. At first you think she is plain; then a sort of spiritual beauty imposes itself on you, and you find a fascination in watching her ... she is both detached and human, silent till she wants to say something, and then says it supremely well." -Vita Sackville-West's description of Virginia Woolf.

Free

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is not reason not to follow your heart." -Steve Jobs

Subtle

"We had a conversation years ago," [Sally] Jenkins says. "I asked Pat if she was a feminist. And she said, 'No, I'm not a sign carrier.' And I said, 'Well, I know what you are -- you're a subversive.' And she said, 'That's exactly right.' I think Pat took the concept of athletics that was used to define confidence and excellence for men, and stole it and gave it to women." -an NPR story about legendary Tennessee basketball coach Pat Summitt and her struggle with Alzheimer's.

Go go go

"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states." - Carol Welch

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Like

"Natural disasters are great for social media," -conclusion of our editorial meeting (our Facebook page got more likes after our two recent snow storms).

Vocation

"Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing -- I suppose that's what a vocation means -- at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction." -Robert Lowell

T/F

True/False weekend ... Stories We Tell is among the best so far (five down, lots more to go).

Report from the West

"I won't listen to the weather report. I'll let the question of snow hang. Answers only dull the senses." -Tom Hennen