create, simply create

~Muriel Rukeyser

~Muriel Rukeyser

A scalpel rests in his right hand, which he holds to the ready even though he’s stepped back from the operation. Gross is gripping the instrument as dexterously as a paintbrush. Surgery, like art, was a matter of the brain and the body.  ~Jason Farago

“The themes are timeless and could apply to any era or any country,” she wrote.  ~Concepción de León

Today, Ojibwe people number more than 200,000, across many small nations divided between the United States and Canada. We all remember in stories and dance a young girl who survived a global pandemic. Her survival gives us hope.  ~Brenda Child

Cuomo and his daughters do press briefings better than Trump and his whoevers and whatevers.  

Actually, Trumpomedy trumps Obamagate any day.

It makes perfect sense!

Trump tested very negatively positive.  

Plenty of wags seized on Trump’s bleach prescription for easy jokes, but her performance gets at something deeper: the peacocky entitlement of the longtime boss who is used to having his every whim indulged, his every thought-doodle praised as a Michelangelo.  ~James Poniewozik

Whereas the patterns of math and science matter because they speak to qualities of reality that exist beyond us, the patterns of art matter because they speak to qualities of reality that exist within us.  ~Brian Greene

Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me." Of course you do not do this out loud, otherwise someone would call the cops. Still, though, think about this: this great pull in us to connect. Why not become the one who lives with a moon in each eye, that is always saying, with that sweet moon language, what every other eye in this world is dying to hear? ~Hafiz

This kind of story is why we all became journalists, no?  The pandemic is historic and, especially because of the social distancing, with everyone indoors, there’s a real need for trained storytellers to inform readers about what’s really going on out there.  ~Gary He

I’m trying to focus on the silver lining of this incredible stopping of time. What can I catch up on? What have I never had time to do? How do I want to improve by the end of this?  ~Megan Fairchild

To me, as a visitor to Walden since childhood, the cairn means most as the marker of an event: Thoreau’s two-year-plus experiment in self-isolation. It’s a condition many of us are experiencing during the present pandemic moment. And we can learn a lot from what Thoreau created from it: constructive solitude.  ~Holland Cotter

In acting, Weisz said, she found a space where there was room for that intensity - bad behavior, flare-ups, conflict, passion - but that was free from consequences: It was exciting and also reassuringly safe. “It’s the realm of the imagination,” she said. “No one gets hurt.”  ~Susan Dominus

The one skill I think I have is detecting patterns and trends and issues that are going to be sort of at the forefront just a little bit before they are, and I think it’s because I read a lot and I talk to a lot of people.  ~Katie Couric