While I have yet to publish a second article, twice in the past two weeks, I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find myself featured on the Matador Network. First, Matador Goods editor, Lola Akinmade notified me that I was on My Favorite Books: Member’s Pick for week 1/18/10. The post included one of my all time favorite quotations:
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
- William Blake
And this past week, I was very flattered when I found a Matador member to watch article written by Matador Network managing editor, Julie Schwietert.
As you’ve probably guessed from my blog name and the quote, rejecting limitations is a major theme with me. Some limitations are best eradicated with the help of others, so I’m extremely grateful that I’ve found a door unlocking community at Matador that is incredibly supportive of writers. Thank you!
This week, Lauren Quinn‘s post on Cuban national heros inspired me to find this quote:
“In truth, men speak too much of danger. Let others be terrified by the natural and healthy risks of life! We shall not be frightened! Poison sumac grows in a hard-working man’s field, the serpent hisses from its hidden den, and the owl’s eye shines in the belfry, but the sun goes on lighting the sky, and truth continues marching across the earth unscathed.”
- Jose Marti
The kids I work with are often full of hilarious and sometimes surprisingly insightful one liners. This week, a student said something about travel that made me smile and I knew I needed to post it here:
“I like seeing new places, it makes you feel like a new person. Travelin’ be hella cool. I been everywhere- Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, Arizona, Las Vegas…”
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!”
- Charles Dickens
“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.”
- Joseph Campell
