"In the end, even a simple word space, paragraph or full stop carries the weight of centuries of tradition and evolution. Like Hemingway, we may prefer to leave out colons, semicolons and dashes, but as long as we do our readers the favour of spacing words, finishing sentences and breaking paragraphs, there can be no such thing as minimal punctuation."
— A brief history of punctuation (via explore-blog)
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Ways to Spend the Spring
Wrote a blog post at @soworthloving about fun things to do during Spring. Go check it out, unless you hate Spring. And in that case, I feel sorry for your soul.
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J. Crew has never disappointed me. But THIS is the greatest.
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I wouldn’t mind this life.
I wouldn’t mind this life.
A life where I spend hours creating a well-organized, thoughtful, and inspiring piece of writing. Be it just for my own creative benefit or for stranger’s eyes.
I wouldn’t mind learning to type with my right hand while drinking a cappuccino with my left.
That just sounds like the best way to multitask to me.
wouldn’t mind triple checking what I write, making sure I have proper grammar but still having a bit of personality.
Because no one likes a boring-anything. Only boring people like boring things I guess.
I wouldn’t mind taking occasional music breaks.
Consisting of browsing undiscovered artist and making playlist just because it’s a new month and my August playlist was getting old.
I wouldn’t mind the blood-red eyes from hours of staring at a screen.
Well, maybe I’d mind this a little. But it’s that kind of sacrifice that comes with being passionate about writing.
I wouldn’t mind meeting people from the social media.
I find myself as a supporter of online meeting (with extreme precaution, of course). I believe exploring people, their lives, and their struggles help me become a better person and give me a worldly side.
I wouldn’t mind writing in my pajamas, or not putting on makeup, or even not brushing my teeth. This may be gross, however, I don’t care because I’m a writer.
I wouldn’t mind this life at all.
Currently, I’m writing from a local coffee shop that I’ve come to adore. It’s home-y. Much home-ier than your typical Starbucks where all there is to do is people watch and wonder if the person next to you has more gold stars than you, or is that just me?
I wouldn’t mind a writer’s life.
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Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety as a kind of physical landscape. When we read, we construct a mental representation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure. The exact nature of such representations remains unclear, but they are likely similar to the mental maps we create of terrain—such as mountains and trails—and of man-made physical spaces, such as apartments and offices. Both anecdotally and in published studies, people report that when trying to locate a particular piece of written information they often remember where in the text it appeared. We might recall that we passed the red farmhouse near the start of the trail before we started climbing uphill through the forest; in a similar way, we remember that we read about Mr. Darcy rebuffing Elizabeth Bennett on the bottom of the left-hand page in one of the earlier chapters.
In most cases, paper books have more obvious topography than onscreen text. An open paperback presents a reader with two clearly defined domains—the left and right pages—and a total of eight corners with which to orient oneself. A reader can focus on a single page of a paper book without losing sight of the whole text: one can see where the book begins and ends and where one page is in relation to those borders. One can even feel the thickness of the pages read in one hand and pages to be read in the other. Turning the pages of a paper book is like leaving one footprint after another on the trail—there’s a rhythm to it and a visible record of how far one has traveled. All these features not only make text in a paper book easily navigable, they also make it easier to form a coherent mental map of the text.
In contrast, most screens, e-readers, smartphones and tablets interfere with intuitive navigation of a text and inhibit people from mapping the journey in their minds.
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Scientific American explores the reading brain in the digital age. Also see the death of the book through the ages, the publishing world on future of print and writers on the future of books. (via explore-blog)
SO true. Never loved anything so much.
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Paper love.
Their love could have made fire seem like ice crystals, years ago. Life was exciting, light-hearted, and warm. They signed a paper to show what was in their heart, along with a diamond, making it apparent to the typical stranger. They made their life, composed of communication, affectionate exchanges, and patience. But somewhere along the way, the fire faded. Not to a dim glow, but to a stick of wax blemished with hardened memories of their pastimes.
All that was left was a piece of paper stating their love and devotion to each other. It wasn’t patience; it was tolerance; It wasn’t loving submission; it was tradition. It wasn’t love; it was paper love.
In due time, the fire will pierce the candle again. But only to burn that paper love.
Taking a break from ACT study time to browse the media for current news and upcoming things that spark my interest. Stumbled upon this. At first I was reluctant about even pressing the little white play button, considering how much I hated Tree of Life. But Ben Affleck is in it, so it can’t be all horrible.
