Look in the square
“The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.” – Publilius Syrus When I was in junior high and high school, I was an artist, taking drawing and painting classes and expecting my parents to hang my oversized and pensive and hormonal portraits of Monarch butterflies over the …
Aim for horizons
"Be careful how you interpret the world: it is like that." – Erich HellerLife has become Technicolor ever since that house landed on the Wicked Witch of the East, but even with that red-shoed inspiration, I still think we humans see most things in polarized terms. (Or perhaps that’s true …
A Test of the Emergency Response System
It’s only a test, a Typepad technology test, an uploading-of-the-images-test. UPDATE: Typepad reports a glitch in photo uploading to domains with numbers in them…hopefully they will have it fixed soon. In the meantime, enjoy exercising your imagination and where you see "image not available," insert your own ideal illustration…
An RSS Confession
I have a confession to make. What I know about the technology of publishing a blog would fit into this thimble. I’ve read "RSS for Dummies" articles, I’ve spent countless hours scouring the "help" section of Typepad, and it still takes me hours to figure out how to create new …
Just wave
“Charity sees the need, not the cause.” – German proverb "We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” – Mother …
Name your pom-poms
“You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.” – French proverb In my hometown, there is a hatchery. They produce little baby chicks and slaughter bigger ones. When I was growing up, it was called Breeden’s Poultry and Hatchery, named after the family that owned …
37 days challenge
"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear." – Joan Didion This blog began with a sense of urgency that centered around what I would do if I only had 37 …
Be a willing and prepared hearer
“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.” – Robert Louis Stevenson, Reflections and Remarks on Human Life I’ve just learned that 37days has won the “Most Inspirational Blog” Award from “The Best of Blogs.” I’m so glad these words and …
Posts in To-Go Boxes
I’ve gotten quite a few requests for printable versions of 37days essays–thanks for your interest. I’m not savvy enough to figure out how to create a "printable version" button on the site, so unless some brave techie type person can help, I’ve resorted to creating PDF versions of the posts. …
with gratitude, my thanks
"Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give." ~ E. A. Robinson I remember watching an Oprah show where her staff took the studio audience into a room full of left shoes. No right shoes, only …
