[pullquote]No contrivances. Lots of empty. Lots of blank... A digital studio for analog content. A subtle stage for unsubtle acts.[/pullquote] 40x41 is presently profiting plenty from the 'press prowess of Caroline Moore. She's a WordPress themer who who seems to favor creative, whimsical, relatively simple (in the sense of unnecessarily cluttered) user interfaces. I fumbled upon Spun a while ...
Midlife Blog
Fall, Fail, Freedom
[pullquote]It will protect you from nothing. It is a tool for falling. For failure. But also for freedom. For living.[/pullquote] I'm not a skateboarder. Never was. Grew up in the country. Too many dirt roads. Too much snow and ice. Too many competing rushes/dangers to lust after for asphalt surfing to offer any real allure. I'm also not a parent. A son, yes. But not a father. So no procreation ...
Blur
Explain… that you live in a blur Of hours and days, months and years, and believe It has meaning, despite the occasional fear You are slipping away with nothing completed, nothing To prove you existed. ~ Mark Strand Those dark, contemplative words are excerpted from Mark Strand's poem "The Continuous Life" (The Continuous Life, Knopf, 1991). I include them here to admit they resonate, not every ...
Bearding
"You're not old enough for a midlife crisis," a sixty year old friend quipped last night over dinner. Wine. Loads of pent up laughter. Transitions. Big birthdays. Aging parents. Aging children, nieces, nephews. I'd laughed off his complement, "Beard's good on you." Was he kidding? Second complement in 24 hours. Strange. Five weeks and nary a comment, as if nobody noticed my ...
Midlife Crisis Quiz
Crumby title. Again. I mean, quiz?!?! Who's inspired by a quiz? Not me. But Rachel Addine's midlife crisis quiz, "What Kind of Midlife Crisis Will You Have?", which was published on PlayBuzz.com yesterday is actually pretty fun. In a waiting-to-see-the-dentist kind of way. It's basically a pseudo personality quiz masquerading as a digital game. Answer a few questions and discover what sort of ...
Memento Mori by A. D. Hope
I noticed today the loosely wrinkled skin On legs and arms, no defect, no disease But simply signs of time, the body's decrease Of power and of repair as these begin The ultimate indications of old age. ~ A.D. Hope ("Memento Mori" via Australian Poetry Library) I return again to memento mori, not to wax morose or moribund but to remind myself to laugh and dance and take nervous risks and strain ...