Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: good quotes

  • We don’t create anything in a vacuum.

    We don’t create anything in a vacuum.

    “We don’t create anything in a vacuum. When you create art, like you’re basically just feeding into this big, sacred legacy of work. And you’re just feeding into the neural net of every other human. You know, it’s like, ultimately, we all kind of function like A.I.; we’re all a product of all the content…

  • “Do not ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Harold Thurman Whitman . from “Awakening Joy Practice Letter 8” by James Baraz

  • Peace

    Peace

    Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world. – Etty Hillesum

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    “Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.” – Haruki Murakami from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, when he compared the first beer he had after his first marathon and the one he longed for during his run.

  • the journey

    the journey

    “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness