POSTED // Nov 25,2011 - “It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything,” said Sagittarian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. “I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.”

POSTED // Nov 18,2011 - In his poem “Ode to the Present,” Pablo Neruda tells us how to slip free and clear into the luxuriously potent opportunity of the present moment. The here-and-now is so ripe and willing, he says, so malleable.

POSTED // Nov 11,2011 - The Cunnilinguistic Dicktionary defines the newly coined word “mutinyversal” as “rebellion against the whole universe.”

POSTED // Nov 4,2011 - “Try to be surprised by something every day,” advises Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. That’s an inspirational idea for everyone all the time

POSTED // Oct 28,2011 - You could preside over your very own Joy Luck Club in the coming days. According to my reading of the astrological omens

POSTED // Oct 21,2011 - Meraki is a Greek word that refers to the bliss you feel when you’re engaged in a task that’s important to you and that you’re doing really well.

POSTED // Oct 14,2011 - Chris Richards wrote a story in the Washington Post in which he complained about the surplus of unimaginative band names.

POSTED // Oct 7,2011 - The Jet Propulsion Laboratory landed two robotic vehicles on Mars in 2004. They were expected to explore the planet and send back information for 90 days. But the rover named Spirit kept working for over six years

POSTED // Sep 30,2011 - “When I was born,” said comedian Gracie Allen, “I was so surprised I didn’t talk for a year and a half.”...

POSTED // Sep 23,2011 - “Our job is to become more and more of what we are,” says poet Marvin Bell. “The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.”