Things Shouldn’t Be So Hardby Kay Ryan A life should leave deep tracks: ruts where she went out and back to get the mail or move the hose around the yard; where she used to stand before the sink, a worn-out place; beneath her hand the china knobs rubbed down to white pastilles; the switch [...]
I’ve refrained from talking about Pinterest and all the remarks around Pinterest “clones” out there because I don’t want to deal with those who will race to call me biased given my role at BO.LT. But — I can’t sleep so I might as well get these thoughts down. Let me say right now, this [...]
I read lots of interesting things but rarely find enough time to write a coherent blog post about them. I’d like to try sharing them without much exposition though and see how it goes. The widget below will update automatically with the things I Bolt. Hope you enjoy!
My dear friend O gave me a collection of short stories. This one in particular by Jonathan Safran Foer keeps returning to me. Somewhere between a poem and prose, it explores the span of a relationship and the details we choose to remember, the actions we wish to revise. Hope you enjoy it. * * [...]
This TED talk by Sri Swami Dayananda Saraswati is one of the best I’ve seen. I’ve watched it several times, and each time something new still strikes me. “One cannot contribute unless one feels secure, one feels big, one feels: I have enough.” “To be compassionate is not a joke. It’s not that simple. One [...]
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal [...]
I’m reading Pleasure Dome, by Yusef Komunyakaa. I found this one especially moving. Once the Dream Begins I wish the bell saved you. “Float like a butterfly & sting like a bee.” Too bad you didn’t learn to disappear before a left jab. Fighting your way out of a clench, [...]
“Nothing just happens.” “Everything just happens.”
A cover of The Scientist, by Willie Nelson Yes, it’s the song from the Chipotle commercial. Yes, it’s a cover of a Coldplay song. Yes, it’s good.
“One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, I hope that you will love me for no good reason. But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another – to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers. Especially to [...]