March 2011
4 posts
February 2011
12 posts
January 2011
11 posts
The Adventurer's Accessory.
Articles & Effects: Sir Edmund Hillary’s Rolex.
Sir Edmund HIllary’s Rolex Oyster Perpetual Chronometer worn as he summited Mt. Everest in 1953 at the Beyer Museum in Zurich, Switzerland.
(from SecretForts)
You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.
– Davy Crockett
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
– Aesop
December 2010
3 posts
November 2010
6 posts
Paint By Numbers
October 2010
3 posts
The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming, although when you...
– Robert Stone (via jaimepage)
September 2010
2 posts
If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to...
– …I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to...
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
– Leonardo da Vinci (via wordpainting)
August 2010
11 posts
"At Least" by Raymond Carver →
jaimepage:
austinkleon:
I want to get up early one more morning, before sunrise. Before the birds, even. I want to throw cold water on my face and be at my work table when the sky lightens and smoke begins to rise from the chimneys of the other houses.
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I hate to seem greedy—I have so much to be thankful for already. But I want to get up early one more morning, at least. And go to...