Curious Composition

That moment when you’re brought to tears on the drive home because, for the first time, you actually listened to a song you’ve heard a hundred times before.

When a story is intriguing enough that a teenager in today’s digital circus would put down their iPhone they would otherwise spend hours insta-stalking celebs or Snapchatting with friends on to read a book, it’s worth reading. There are many authors and adult readers on both sides of the all-books-are-good-books debate, but I really think it’s a discussion that is only complicated if you make it so. And I’m siding with Neil Gaiman on this one. I’m a writer. I admire exceptional writers and I’m intrigued by good stories. But I don’t limit my absorption or experience by what others think or perceive as quality. So the stories from the pens and digits of mediocre or elementary writers often move me just as those the high-brow literature aficionados consider worthy of their time. Evocative narrative is about heart. Divergent ideas. New perspective. Genuine voice. The power of words comes through more clearly in the polish of a well-written story; but I don’t prefer a gloss to a sheen. And sometimes, tales are told better with more dirt in the seams. To the curious beating hearts of the world, be you youthful or weathered, I say unabashedly, read on. 

An SNES coffee table that you can play with. It’s so good I’m actually upset I can’t afford it.

Watercolor; the first of a series. 

Bonnie and Bill Rutherford. They capture the magic of children’s books in the ‘60s. Does anyone know anything about them? I want to know their story. 

Beautiful contradictions. 

Contrast and parking ramps. Perspective and cement stairs. 

Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library