Whole Lot of Link Love! 5.9.8
With my mother in town this past weekend, the boy-mates parents in next weekend, and a wedding to attend in NOLA the following week, my schedule is a bit jam-packed! I have had little time to update, but I've been keeping up with my reading...
- Thanks to Coilhouse, I have a new favorite blog: Sociological Images. I love the thoughtful posts about things like gender issues, body images, alternative lifestyles, and more, as portrayed in media. It's intelligent and evocative, and while I think there can be a downside to (over?) analyzing everything, I enjoy that it brings these topics up for discussion.
- Nubby Twiglet's post Does Your Stuff Define Who You Are? I love discussions like these, because it really makes me consider what I buy, what it says about me, what influenced me to buy it, and more.
- Similarly, Tricia's post that discusses the symbolism of what we wear, the repercussions of ignorance and knowledge, and more.
- Zen Habits' teaches us how to turn out goals in to habits. That's something I'd very much like to work on, from finance, to better health and time management, and better/greater creative outlets.
- J.K. Rowling shares the Fringe Benefits of Failure to Harvard's most recent graduating class. Some of my favorite parts:
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above rubies.
Given a time machine or a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
Oh my! I just realized that this is my 100th post here at Dramatis Personae. Very lovely.
Labels: blog spots I loved
posted by Ashe Mischief at
12:19 PM
3 Comments:
Congratulations on your 100th post! That's pretty cool. :) Thanks for these links, too, they look really interesting.
June 9, 2008 5:25 PM
Congrats! I love that first image. Failure seems like a strange topic for a graduating class--didn't they just suceed in passing exams?
June 10, 2008 1:57 PM
I think the reason she chose failure is because she states that the Harvard class, since they are graduating from Harvard, might not have encountered failure much during their lives (which is a whole other can of worms).
And as such, I think she really wants to reiterate that some of your greatest successes in life can come from allowing yourself to fail. It wasn't until she was nearly destitute and a single mother that she focused on doing what she loved and found success in doing that (as opposed to doing what others expected of her).
June 10, 2008 8:36 PM
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