oh bother...
Oct. 27th, 2009 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluecastleGot to work and ended up in a blue funk ... so I went out at lunchtime for a little retail therapy at Barnes and Noble.
I needed a new blank book, which I got, and then ended up with the following in my bag:
The sweetest, most wonderful vintagey 2010 Day Book which I love already. Bonus points for the blue satin ribbon bookmark!!
Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin. I actually thought I was picking up Tales of the City, but I read the first three chapters while I ate my lunch, and I'm hooked already. A really vivid first-person narrative, and delightful (and a bit cracky) so far. Am jealous already of how free and easy he makes writing fiction look.
Also off the bargain rack I picked up a nice, hard-bound, feels-good-in-your-hand copy of Walden. It seemed like appropriate Fall into Winter reading somehow.
and then seeking a bit of inspiration for my bad mood, I bought myself a magnet (printed with certified wind power, it says) with the following quote:
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you!
-Christian D. Larson.
Truly, words I need to hear all the damn time.
I needed a new blank book, which I got, and then ended up with the following in my bag:
The sweetest, most wonderful vintagey 2010 Day Book which I love already. Bonus points for the blue satin ribbon bookmark!!
Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin. I actually thought I was picking up Tales of the City, but I read the first three chapters while I ate my lunch, and I'm hooked already. A really vivid first-person narrative, and delightful (and a bit cracky) so far. Am jealous already of how free and easy he makes writing fiction look.
Also off the bargain rack I picked up a nice, hard-bound, feels-good-in-your-hand copy of Walden. It seemed like appropriate Fall into Winter reading somehow.
and then seeking a bit of inspiration for my bad mood, I bought myself a magnet (printed with certified wind power, it says) with the following quote:
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you!
-Christian D. Larson.
Truly, words I need to hear all the damn time.
