life

I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun. Thomas Edison

Instructions for living a life Pay attention Be astonished Tell about it Mary Oliver

New blog post by Beverley Dalton Self-esteem and stuff I’ve learned about it Nearly forty years ago I was taken to a self-development workshop by a new boyfriend (and yes, I did think maybe he was inviting me to join a cult, but he was hella cute, so I went along anyway). And for the next ten...

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. Kazuo Ishiguro

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing" Michel Houellebecq

Boredom is your imagination calling to you. Sherry Turkle

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don't want to suffer. We don't want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we're living our lives in a very comfortable area. There's no growth in that. David Goggins

I do remember walking in a fog for days after seeing Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet as a 13 year old. But that was because of the sheer beauty of the cinematography more than Shakespeare. It took awhile to come to my small Kansas town but when it finally did I was allowed the money to actually...

New blog post by mickleinapickle Bonnie Bethany Mother found a shilling down the back of the sofa and gambled it on a horse called ‘Bonnie Bethany’ in the 5th race at Carlisle. . It duly obliged at 5/1. . We gave a collective WHOOP when she presented a vinegar-lashed takeaway...

New blog post by Lyse Beck Humans vs AI Okay, I know it’s not a war. Us against the machine. I’m not I-Robot-ing or anything. Or am I? I do know I’m angry about AI permeating every aspect of my life. I’m angry about us using machine learning/AI as the holy grail and it being fed everything...

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself. Iris Murdoch

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. Yiddish Proverb

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone." Karen Salmansohn

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. Boris Pasternak

Hello Litopians! I hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas, a happy Holiday Season, and that 2025 will outperform all the dreadful (and merited) predictions to become your best year EVER! After the US elections last November, I went into a tailspin nosedive of angst and woe the likes of...

There are times I can't get a word to paper. Now I know why: on those days, I've turned into a dolphin.

All human beings have three lives: public, private and secret. Gabriel García Márquez