I woke up this morning . . .

Sorry, you gotta double click on this to take you to YouTube to watch

what an amazing time

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/18/us/politics/inauguration-photos.html?th&emc=th#/248

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. If you can, take the time to flip through the entire collection. Contributions from people all over the country . . .

Play On . . .

Lath and I just started reading The Gift, by Lewis Hyde, which started a debate over whether the clip I shared with you yesterday, Right Said Fred’s video Stand Up, would be considered a commodity or a gift.

I, personally, think everything about Right Said Fred is a gift.

Lath respectfully disagrees.

Nothing like a little Right Said Fred to get the new year up and rolling.

the art of conversation

I just stumbled across this and feel like sharing it. I feel surrounded by opinions lately, and have too often shared mine when—in hindsite—it would have been better to simply nod and refrain. 

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult still to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. 

—Dorothy Nevill