Imagine taking 5 photographs a day for 50 years. After 18,250 days, you would have more than 100,000 photographs. You would have stepped out of the flow, peered through your viewfinder and captured a single moment more than 100,000 different times. What else will you have done out of intention, outside of the flow, more than 100,000 […]
She was eccentric, strong, heavily opinionated, highly intellectual, and intensely private. She wore a floppy hat, a long dress, wool coat, and men’s shoes and walked with a powerful stride. With a camera around her neck whenever she left the house, she would obsessively take pictures, but never showed her photos to anyone. Description of […]
I want to assure you with all earnestness that no writing is a waste of time — no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good. It has stretched your understanding. I know that. Even if I knew […]
First, sink the foundations. Proceed slowly, make sure that each load-bearing point is set firm and square. There’s no visible progress and patience, an understanding of the big picture, is required. Then, erect the frame. Distribute the force of the beams and girders across the bearing loads. You have made the skeleton, strung the tendons. […]
–I’ve got to make a political cartoon, the sixth-grade boy says to me. I’m going downstairs. I’m fiddling with my iPad and half-watching the end of the US Open. I’m just happy that he didn’t rope me into working on the assignment and that he’s going down to the playroom alone. Sometimes he gets […]
Alex would stop by in the morning on the way to the shack where Nathan kept the two trucks down by the rail yard. Louis liked to wait for his cousin on the back step. He would watch Alex stepping up the street, at one moment firm and quick in his stride, then just as […]
He was a violent man incapable of being faithful ton his wife. He was also paranoid. Those qualities doomed their marriage. February 17, 2011 6:19 pm via TwittelatorReplyRetweetFavorite @drmstream drmstream When you tell a story on Twitter, you assemble it into 140 character or fewer bits and distribute it into the stream. It is different […]
The ice forms surreptitiously, against all probability, when winter takes a river. The pieces form inadvertently, bound by the cold, and collide into each other, adhered by the quickening of the silky black water. It’s like a crowd of summer lilies — but it isn’t. The pieces of ice are jagged and uneven, thick and […]
I was going through my papers and found three pages of loose notes. They must be recent, but I don’t know why I made them, whether they are my own ideas or notes jotted down from something that I read or saw. They are organized but hurried. They comprise a manifesto of sorts. I just […]
The pump house froze up last night and when we came downstairs all we got from the faucets was a thin trickle of water. I pulled my boots on, picked up a shovel and walked down the lane to where the path cuts across to the pond. The pump house is built into the dirt there, […]