September 2009
The Bowl of Milk
I saw the most beautiful painting at the Tate Modern in London. I bought the postcard but it didn’t capture hardly anything about the actual painting. The actual painting literally glowed, like a glow worm or moon light. I wished I could have taken it home with me. It made me think of a story where someone falls in love with a painting…then obsesses to the point where they do something...
The Four Hour Work Week
First—some photo inspiration for living the ideal life
I read the book The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss. It tells you to dream big, as if you had 100 million in the bank and were 10 times smarter and more talented than the rest of the world and could do whatever it was that would make you wake up excited to start the day.
This book...
So much for being Greene Incarnate
To think things through like a strategist without your vision being clouded by emotions is SO HARD. To plan for the long term, to think about what your opponent is planning, to be one step ahead, to control the situation by controlling yourself, to be a poor player on the stage and act to deceive and win, or a chess master seeing ten moves ahead… It’s almost impossible.
I thought I was going to...
TONIGHT TONIGHT
Tonight I was put to a test and passed a test, in my own eyes.
I broke up with someone when I thought I would never be able to give up something I had wanted for so long.
I didn’t even feel sad. I feel proud. I feel like my daily mood logs worked. I did not even feel something was horribly wrong with me, and wish to be one of the girls pictured below.
Maybe he did not like who I was....
The Girl Crush
What would it be like to be super gorgeous? Like, most beautiful person in the world pretty? Buttercup pretty? Model pretty? It has always seemed like everything would be easier. Boys would flock to you. People would give you stuff for free. You would never need to do anything but be yourself to impress everybody. You could have everything you wanted and be really happy. But that’s not...
Navajo Country
I went to a sacred place for the Navajo people yesterday. Canyon de Chelly. My Navajo guide Sally who grew up in the canyon in the thirties told me this story.
The Navajos were living in Canada and other random places when legend has it that the Navajo’s god told them to look for a new home in a great canyon. Music would lead them there. Music led some of them to different canyons around...
Days of Heaven
I watched the movie Days of Heaven tonight. It was amazing. It reminded me of The Lives of Others in its perfection.
Then I read a great Roger Ebert review of Days of Heaven which helped me appreciate the movie even more. I love his reviews.
Terrence Malick is a very interesting person. After the release of Days of Heaven, which left every one stunned by its beauty, he disappeared for twenty...
The aforementioned bloggeuse
Here are some more pictures from the blog of sparkles and crumbs. Can you tell we share the same taste in movies? And books? I feel she is a kindred spirit whom i have never met. She lives in England and goes to Cambridge. She is clearly the obsessive love type, who is always putting up some loneliness inspirational quotes to heal her broken heart. She loves disney, musicals, poetry, costumes,...
The Hills are Alive
from the bloggeuse, one of my all time top favorites, sparkles and crumbs
Suppli
When I was in Italy my favorite food besides pizza was suppli—fried balls of rice and tomato sauce with mozarella in the center served hot. They are the most amazing food, I have an intense craving for them, and I am going to try to make them tomorrow.
Farm Dinner
Today I made some hearth bread from the book How to be a Domestic Goddess by the domestic goddess. It was really fun. The highlight of cooking was wrapping full heads of garlic in little packages of tin foil and cooking them in the oven and then squeezing out the warm cloves. Very Nigella.
Nigella suggested you eat it with fried eggs and grilled tomatoes, so I did. It was a divine meal. It felt...
The Evil Dr. Burns
I’m on law 42 of the 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. It has been a really amazing read. I’ve learned so much. Like today I learned genuine anger serves no purpose. It is always better to be calm and rational.
I went on a hike today and it was kind of boring, but it still felt good to move the legs and feel the burn. I got in a fight with someone, but decided after I left it...
