As Newtown begins the horrible process of burying the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting, I feel the need for something beautiful.
Thanks, NobleRot, for sending this link to literally, something beautiful.
Today the Strangers in my Inbox brought me this video. I was struck by how this photographer worries he'll get too jaded to see the beauty walking by him on the street. My dad told me once anything is interesting if you know the details, and my writing professor told me the whole subject is here: ( ), but your article is here: ().
Art is in the details, but getting down to the details takes quite a bit of time, and there are always things buzzing around my head trying to distract me. This next week I'm going to take a blog hiatus and focus on the details.
Happy American Thanksgiving to all of you and yours, and I'll see you again on November 26.
Ireland, by Peter Cox.
(This thing? Goes into the Chateau Travolta Banish the Linoleum Fund. Ooh-rah, VTech. Plus I like their phones. Actual post is below this big box.)
I don't know if you do Twitter or Facebook, but if you are friends with me there, or read my tweets or status updates, you know that I like to spend a few minutes a few mornings a week on StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon is a site where people tag cool or funny or beautiful things and you just hit the button like a rodent and it rewards you with something interesting to look at that's been crowd-sourced by the masses. You hit a button to say like or dislike, and it finds you stuff closer to what you like the next time.
I use it as a mood enhancer. Totally Pavlovian, right?
I like to look for beautiful or cool or funny things in the morning to start my day off better. I do this BEFORE I look at news headlines, because -- as evidenced by my post yesterday -- they tend to be complete downers.
Here are my favorite stumbles from the last month or so:
2011 National Geographic Photo Contest
What I can only assume is a monastery on top of a cliff
If you see beautiful things in your travels online, please tag the #morningstumble so we can all enjoy. There's enough ugly out there already.