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| 86dd91a | The small corner market had rows of fresh flowers in white plastic buckets. Standing, the early fall sun on her shoulders, she opened her mind. She assessed the fuchsia roses and violet freesias, vibrant orange and gerbera daisies. Willowy snapdragons. | portia-cuthcart | Linda Francis Lee | |
| b64f5ed | If Olivia was like a decadent chocolate-covered strawberry, and Portia a pineapple-and-spice hummingbird cupcake, then Cordelia was peanut butter brittle, still sweet, though with something more substantial added by way of peanuts, but unbendable. | sisters | Linda Francis Lee | |
| 4d85630 | Heart pounding, she started to prepare the meal that hit her so hard. Her famous cherry tomatoes stuffed with chile, cheese, and bacon, along with pulled pork, endive slaw, and potato pancakes with homemade catsup. | cooking meal portia-cuthcart | Linda Francis Lee | |
| ed6dc2f | nuclear winter | Alistair Moffat | ||
| 22e595a | At Falkland Palace, Andrew Melville famously reminded James VI in 1596 that: [t]hair is twa Kings and twa Kingdomes in Scotland. Thair is Christ Jesus the King, and His kingdom, the Kirk, whase subject King James the Saxt is, and of whase kingdome nocht a king, not a lord, not a heid, but a member. | Alistair Moffat | ||
| a6c42cf | So they're fake?" "No, no. Stories are a different kind of true." "I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door." | Emma Donoghue | ||
| d0f4f55 | I would be over the moon if you'd make me one of your famous apple cakes." Portia stared at the ingredients her sister had lined up with perfect precision on the scratched countertop. Apples. Butter. Brown sugar. Cordelia cocked her head. "What is it?" "Nothing," Portia said, her voice weak. "It's just that I'm not in the mood to bake, is all." That was a lie. Her fingers itched to dive in, peel, and core, sift the flour, fold in the soften.. | apples baking ingredients portia-cuthcart sisters | Linda Francis Lee | |
| 8ce5050 | Without thinking about what she was doing, she pulled blueberries from the icebox and peaches from the fruit bin. She might have only been seven years old, but she was smart enough to know that her mother would have a fit if she pulled out knives, or did anything near the two-burner hot plate. Instead, Portia, pulled the peaches apart, catching the sticky-sweet juice on her tongue as it ran down her fingers. She found a slice of angel food .. | blueberries fruits peaches portia-cuthcart | Linda Francis Lee | |
| 06edabb | the tundra was even more beautiful--a glistening gold, and its shadows were purple and blue. Lemon-yellow clouds sailed a green sky and every wind-tossed sedge was a silver thread. "Oh," she whispered in awe, and stopped where she was to view the painted earth." -- | Jean Craighead George | ||
| 6e34d4f | When the birds were trilling and the leaves were swelling, an Indian came striding into Plymouth. Tall, almost naked, and very handsome, he raised his hand in friendship. "Welcome, Englishmen," said Samoset, Massasoit's ambassador. The Pilgrims murmured in astonishment. The "savage" spoke English. He was friendly and dignified. They greeted him warmly, but cautiously. Samoset departed and returned a week later with Massasoit and Squanto. Fo.. | Jean Craighead George | ||
| d054fdb | Hunger is a funny thing. It has a kind of intelligence of it's own. | Jean Craighead George | ||
| ee8825a | When the crops were thriving, Squanto took the men to the open forests where the turkey dwelled. He pointed out the nuts, seeds, and insects that the iridescent birds fed upon. He showed them the leaf nests of the squirrels and the hideouts of the skunks and raccoons. Walking silently along bear trails, he took them to the blueberry patches. He told them that deer moved about at sundown and sunrise. He took them inland to valleys where the .. | Jean Craighead George | ||
| 5fe4f24 | I heard you humming." "Yes," he said. "I hum a great deal. Can you hum?" "Yes," I replied. "I can hum. I hum a good deal, too, and even sing, especially when I get out of the spring in the morning. Then I really sing aloud." "Let's hear you sing aloud." So I said, feeling very relaxed with the sun shining on my head, "All right, I'll sing you my cold water song." | Jean Craighead George | ||
| d3b62a6 | My site is hosted by Linode Cloud. My advertising is handled by Mindy Spradlin at BeaconAds. Disclaimer This is my personal blog. The opinions I express here do not necessarily represent those of my employer, Thomas Nelson. The information I provide is on an as-is basis. I make no representations as to accuracy, completeness, currentness, suitability, or validity of any information on this blog and will not be liable for any errors, omissio.. | Michael Hyatt | ||
| 6b88b94 | for instance. "When we say 'World Domination,' " Pavitt explained, "we're saying, 'Fuck you, we're from Seattle, and we don't care if the media machines are in L.A., we're going to create our own." -- | Michael Azerrad | ||
| dbcec29 | Neither the Pilgrims nor the Indians new what they had begun. The Pilgrims called the celebration a Harvest Feast. The Indians thought of it as a Green Corn Dance. It was both and more than both. It was the first Thanksgiving. In the years that followed, President George Washington issued the first national Thanksgiving proclamation, and President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November a holiday of "thanksgiving and praise.. | Jean Craighead George | ||
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| 998b7d9 | w 'khdh lnjm whb lHy@ ybzG bbT Ht~ Sr mstdyran mtwhjan lwnh l'Hmr fy kbd lsm | Jean Craighead George | ||
| 3549d92 | Hyn ytmlkk lkhwf, Gyr mm 'nt f`lh, fnk tf`l shyy'an frqh lSwb | Jean Craighead George | ||
| e4cf7dd | To that, I say this: a few may not agree, but one of the greatest men to have walked the earth in my lifetime is Nelson Mandela. He and his people suffered tremendously under the apartheid regime, but when he took over the mantle of governing South Africa, he did not vindictively return the favour to the opposition, which would probably have sent South Africa into chaos and terminal decline. Instead he charted a way forward that started wit.. | Michael Holding | ||
| 03c44ed | that was what the Irish seemed to call every young female | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 864fed4 | Paul McCartney was at the microphone singing Ricky Nelson's "Lonesome Town" to an almost empty Royal Albert Hall. Many of the other performers on the bill were waiting to rehearse but had melted away to the edges of the auditorium to give him some space. Neil Finn was talking to Johnny Marr, Sinead O'Connor was there with her son, and the emcee for the night, Eddie Izzard, was looking over the running order with Chrissie Hynde. George Micha.. | Elvis Costello | ||
| ded874a | About I am the chairman of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world and the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S. This is my personal blog. It is focused on "intentional leadership." My philosophy is if you are going to lead well, you must be thoughtful and purposeful about it. I write on leadership, productivity, publishing, social media, and, on occasion, stuff that doesn't fit ne.. | Michael Hyatt | ||
| c9ee683 | You can also check my blog's archive for a list of every post I have written or use the search function below my picture in the sidebar to find other posts that might be of interest. My Biography I have worked in the book publishing industry my entire career. I began at Word Publishing while a student at Baylor University. I worked at Word for a total of six years. In addition to serving as vice president of marketing at Thomas Nelson in th.. | Michael Hyatt | ||
| 841ef7e | Beat Happening know that the deep moments in our lives don't extract profundities from us; rather, it is cliches that are the endless, involuntary spew of the lover's discourse. | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 5451755 | Says Sullivan, "Those guys used to get together in the van and put their hands all together and then Paul would say, 'Where are we going?' And the band would go, 'To the middle!' And he'd go, 'Which middle?' And they'd go, 'The very middle!' " But it was all false modesty. The Replacements, it seemed, secretly believed in themselves and yet adopted a loser persona to insulate themselves against failure." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 3227d7a | We were in Nashville and the whole place was packed with country music executives. They played all their punk rock--just as loud and fast as they could until they virtually cleared the room until there was nothing left but punks. And then they played country music the rest of the night. | Michael Azerrad | ||
| f9eb171 | Artistically (and in many other ways), the band was liberated by the fact that they'd never sign to a major label. "In a way, we were cheating because we didn't have that light at the end of the tunnel," Prescott says. "And who knows? We were human--if the light had been there, maybe we would have turned crappy quicker. It's a really hard thing to say. Now I'm glad that it was like it was." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 4b3d9d9 | Pavitt's goal was to build a national network of like-minded people to fend off what he called "the corporate manipulation of our culture" by the media centers of New York and Los Angeles." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 7ae4b54 | It's as if Sonic Youth has gone back to the very beginnings of the process by which the world reveals itself as something other than its advertisement, as if the band has discovered the most marginal no," Marcus wrote. "The power of Sonic Youth's no will be negligible; few will hear this music. That the spirit of the act is still at work may not be." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 1b06d74 | When I became a punk, my main fight was against the people who were around me--friends," said MacKaye in the essential 1983 hardcore documentary Another State of Mind. "I said, 'God, I don't want to be like these people, man. I don't fit in at all with them.' So it was an alternative." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| b216feb | Leary and Haynes published a fanzine called Strange V.D., which featured the most horrendous medical photographs they could find accompained by captions describing fictitious diseases like "taco leg" and "pine cone butt." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 7f46465 | We don't have to convince the world that we're suffering to convince them that we're artists," Hart said, jabbing at Black Flag's angst-ridden style. "There are those that choose to take that course. There's nothing wrong with being happy." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| c7348e8 | It's just that when you're playing in standard tuning all the time," Moore explained, "you're sounding pretty... standard." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 0c507b2 | There's no place like home / So where am I?" MacKaye sings with undisguised bitterness. "I just felt so betrayed by my friends," MacKaye says, "for doing what I wanted to do, for doing what I thought was the right thing." They performed the song only once, at their first show after reuniting. Afterward Baker and Preslar heaved handfuls of change at the audience." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 64f12ae | Gordon wrote in one 1983 essay. "As a performer you sacrifice yourself, you go through the motions and emotions of sexuality for all the people who pay to see it, to believe that it exists. The better and more convincing the performance, the more an audience can identify with the exterior involved in such an expenditure of energy." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 829f1b7 | where there's one there's ten.' That's crazy math. | funny maths | Emma Donoghue | |
| 01e9e52 | I remember watching these kids getting up in the morning on my dorm floor, putting on a suit and tie and a briefcase, talking about this guy from California named Ronald Reagan and how he was going to be the next president," says Mould. "And I'd be sitting there arguing with those fucks in speech class and poli sci and just hating that, thinking, 'This is not acceptable behavior. This is not what we're supposed to be doing with our late tee.. | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 9ab8392 | In terms of the peripherals, the attitude of do-it-yourself, that kind of thing, not being a remote rock star and having layers of management and record labels and all that--instead, booking your own shows, doing your own publicity if necessary. Not everything has to be so home industry, but being willing to do whatever is necessary and not considering one's self remote, dealing with the guy at the distributor and respecting people for the .. | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 0723abd | Music journalist Chris Nelson once wrote, "Their friendship formed the living core of the Minutemen, while their loyalty to each other and San Pedro informed the overarching theme of brotherhood that permeates the band's catalog." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| ed925f2 | People have misconstrued the pessimism and anger in our songs," Mould protested. "We're really the opposite of all that; we're not callous, insensitive people. But we're frustrated by the fact that most people seem to end up that way--hopeless, defeated. We're afraid of ending up that way ourselves, and that fear comes out in our songs." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 16a4476 | In retrospect, Hart believes that taking on so many responsibilities may have hurt the band in the long run. "The DIY thing, I don't know, it's like we handicapped ourselves in a lot of situations to maintain that," he says. "There were things that, by all rights, we should have been able to let go of and oversee." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| a00f191 | Relationships are currency, something Sonic Youth had picked up on not only from the art world but from the camaraderie of the SST bands. | Michael Azerrad | ||
| b0dea7f | You're advertising the fact that there's a community here--it's not just this industry that's manufacturing bands, it's a happening scene where people are feeding off each other. | Michael Azerrad |