As a bike-lady myself, I am content to recommend a wonderful piece of writing from Brainpickings.org:
Wheels of Change: How The Bicycle Empowered Women
Wheels of Change: How The Bicycle Empowered Women
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How the “Most Beautiful Woman in the World” Invented a System for Remote-Controlling Torpedoes
“When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age and experience disappear completely.”
Read the full article at Brainpickings.org.
In photo – Hedy Lamarr
James Joyce’s Love Letters – Brainpickings.org
“If I am to write anything fine or noble in the future I shall do so only by listening at the doors of your heart.”
Dive into this enthralling read:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/02/02/james-joyce-love-letters-nora-barnacle/
www.brainpickings.org is a trailblazing castle of knowledge located in the enchanted forest where ideas dance and glimmer like so many fern flowers.
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Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Maximize Our Aliveness
“Do you need a prod? Do you need a little darkness to get you going?”
– Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Maximize Our Aliveness by brainpickings.org:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/09/mary-oliver-blue-horses-fourth-sign-of-the-zodiac/
www.brainpickings.org is a trailblazing castle of knowledge located in the enchanted forest where ideas dance and glimmer like so many fern flowers.
Donating = Loving
“The cultivation of Christmas trees” from Brainpickings.org
“There are several attitudes towards Christmas, some of which we may disregard: The social, the torpid, the patently commercial…” – T.S. Eliot
In a rare gem of trailblazing vision from Brainpickings.org:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/12/24/t-s-eliots-the-cultivation-of-christmas-trees/
Jeanette Winterson’s 10 tips on writing from Brainpickings.org
10 rules of writing (which apply to all creative work) from one of our greatest living writers:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/09/05/jeanette-winterson-10-tips-on-writing/
They all boil down to: “Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.” – Neil Gaiman
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“Take away the A” by Brainpickings.org
A playful celebration of the magic of language:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/19/take-away-the-a-book/
www.brainpickings.org is a trailblazing castle of knowledge located in the enchanted forest where ideas dance and glimmer like so many fern flowers.
Donating = Loving
