“Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you… The problem with hoarding is you end up living off your reserves. Eventually you’ll become stale. Somehow the more ideas you give away the more comes back to you.”
~ Paul Arden
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Over the summer, Manda had me on a huge history kick with all our discussions of royalty and history. (She is the Anne Boleyn to my Marie Antoinette!) It’s had me digging out my art history books and shuffling through them admiring my favourite artistic periods. And while I’m not usually one for the “let’s flaunt my excessive wealth with my house-that-by-definition-could-be-a-castle-it’s-so-massive, my diamond shoes, my plasma-screen-television-sets-two-in-each-of-my-20-washrooms, or my money placemats” hoop-la, I’m a sucker for the ole Rococo period of art. I say this because while we can all appreciate and “Awwww!” the cute the cherubs, soft pastel colours and scenes of love and leisure, such was not always the case.
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Poster by Milton Glaser. Purchase here. All proceeds go to New York charities hurt by the September 11, 2001 attacks.
I still remember the exact place I was 8 years ago today: standing just outside the door to my math class, first floor of the high school, pod D, classroom in the far right corner. I was with a friend and we were frantically going over our fractions homework from the night before checking our answers against each other. God forbid we got one little question wrong on even the most insignificant math homework from 9th grade. It all seems so trivial now. All I can remember afterward is staring blankly in complete silence at the projector as we all watched the smoke rising and clouding the entire city in black.
Though I knew no one personally involved, my heart goes out to those who lost family, friends and loved ones in the attacks.
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