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Quote wall: Ted Lasso
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > Be curious, not judgmental. —Misattributed to Walt Whitman [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/be-curious-not-judgmental-walt-whitman/], by way of Ted Lasso If
Quote wall: Issa Rae
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > I make excellent mistakes. —Issa Rae, on Twitter [https://twitter.com/issarae/status/890737011983736833?lang=en] There are probably many
Shoeless Joe
In Field of Dreams, Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) tells his wife, Annie (Amy Madigan), about Shoeless Joe Jackson: > My father said he saw him years later, playing under a made-up name in some tenth-rate league in Carolina. He'd put on fifty pounds, and the spring was gone
Quote wall: E.B. White
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > I must decline, for secret reasons. —E.B. White, in a reply to an invitation to join the Committee of
Quote wall: Colum McCann
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > Just keep your arse in the chair. Arse in the chair. Arse in the chair. —Colum McCann, Letters to a
Quote wall: David McCullough
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > There’s an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop,
Quote wall: Carl Sagan
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. —Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Part 11: The Persistence of Memory)
Quote wall: Nina LaCour
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > Some work on most days. —Nina LaCour While taking LaCour's writing course, The Slow Novel Lab [https://the-slow-novel-lab.
Blowing up mountains
From the window I can see three mountains: Hood, Adams, St. Helens. They're all quite lovely at a distance. I don't know much about them. Mt. St. Helens, of course, erupted in 1980. I was two years old, so of course don't remember it.
Quote wall: Ali Wong
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > I mostly bombed. It's the only way to get good. —Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets