I like playing tennis and the violin.
Also, I watch too much tv.
I'm getting around to writing a proper about me, so, yeah...
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
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Going through a drawer I found the submissions/applications log I’ve kept off and on over the years. Just in case you think it’s all been roses I’d like to report that Yaddo rejected me (as recently as 2011). McDowell rejected me. Hedgebrook rejected me twice. The Georgia Review rejected me and Ploughshares rejected me and Tin House rejected me, as did about twenty other journals and magazines. Both The Sun and The Missouri Review rejected me before I appeared in their pages. Literary Arts declined to give me a fellowship three times before I won one. I’ve applied for an NEA five times and it’s always been a no. Harper’s magazine never even bothered to reply. I say it all the time but I’ll say it again: keep on writing. Never give up. Rejection is part of a writer’s life. Then, now, always.
Hey-oh! 75 followers! And first thing this morning I saw Megan Lara’s, “Duh”. Perfect time to share her amazing Archer designs. All I can say is Sploosh. #ArcherArtists
If you’re writing songs on your couch, you’ll end up writing songs that sound good on your couch. You have to get on stage.
Andrew Bird during the Festival of Faith and Music (via fuckyesandrewbird)
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I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave’s a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon… And that’s what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.
Joan Didion (via kateoplis)
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