This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, argue, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek. To seek: to embrace the questions, be wary of answers.

Terry Tempest Williams, via A Word a Day

one petal
from the princess tree
clings to the windshield—
I drive away
looking in the mirror

un pétale
de l’arbre impérial
s’accroche au pare-brise
je démarre
en regardant dans le rétroviseur

via 25 Canadian Tanka Poets in French and English : Atlas Poetica.

The pens and tongues of contumely were arrested. Mocking mouths were shut. Even righteous protestation hushed its clamor, as when, having striven manfully in single combat, a high-helmed champion is stricken by Jove’s bolt and the two snarling armies stand at sudden gaze, astonished and bereft a moment of their rancor.

That was Time, reporting on the start of the Scopes monkey trial.

The New Yorker, where I found this, goes on to add:

This is also a good example of what’s called a “blind lead,” a sort of swooping down from above, and out of nowhere. It could have been about anything. Time’s obituaries often began, “Death, as it must to all men, came last week to …” They could have been about anyone.

The story, about the rivalry between Henry Luce and Harold Ross, is a great read.

Minscul Mini, originally uploaded by dtweney.

Neatly sidestepping any debates about spelling.

Happiest People Ever!

Google Maps Typography, by Rhett Dashwood.

Former Gawker editor and Awl founder Choire Sicha: “If I were going to be buying things now, I would be buying media properties. You get a lot of bang for your buck. People are making good, stable money, recession or no. Now is the time that people should be trying things and having fun.”

Choire Sicha’s Plea: Stay Away, Stupid People!: Matt Pressman | Vanity Fair.

From: Lady Catherine Levett,
4 Old Church Street, Chelsea, SW3, England.

Here writes Lady Catherine Levett , suffering from cancerous ailment.
Iam married to Engineer Neil Levett an Englishman who is dead.
My husband was into private practice all his life before his death. Our life
together as man and wife lasted for three decades without child. My
husband died after a protracted illness.

My husband and I made a vow to uplift the down-trodden and the
less-privileged individuals as he had passion for persons who can not
help themselves due to physical disability or financial predicament. I can
adduce this to the fact that he needed a Child from this relationship,
which never came. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of 950,000. GBP
(Nine Hundred and Fifty thousand Great Britain Pounds Sterling) which were derived
from his vast estates and investment in capital market with his bank in Malaysia.
Presently, this money is still with the Bank. Recently, my
Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the cancerous
problems I am suffering from.

Though what bothers me most is the stroke that I have in addition to
the cancer. With this hard reality that has befallen my
family, and me I have decided to donate this fund to you and want you
to use this gift which comes from my husbands effort to fund the
upkeep of widows, widowers, orphans, destitute, the down-trodden, physically
challenged children, barren-women and persons who prove to be
genuinely handicapped financially.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of my
lawyer and the bank in Malaysia. I will also issue you a Letter of Authority
that will empower you as the original beneficiary of this fund. My
happiness is that I lived a life worthy of emulation. Please always be
prayerful all through your life. Please assure me that you will act
just as I have stated herein. Hope to hear from you soon and God bless you and
members of your family. you can contact me through my private email
address: levett_ladycatherine@yahoo.co.uk

Lady Catherine Levett