"it has flavor, unlike anything that has been distilled six times. Now, this flavor is a strange, ancient one and might not immediately be to everyone's liking. But at least it's a taste that knows what it wants to be."
Sep 28, 2010
flavour
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Labels: drink, execution success, intransigence
Sep 23, 2010
writing break
yamazaki 18
aberlour a'bunadhtalisker 10
ardbeg airigh nam beist
ardbeg corryvreckan
bookers bourbon
nano-lot piura (bag #3), sambirano, and hispaniola, from rogue
honeycrisp/gala unfiltered, unpasteurised cider
courtesy of the letters c, b, and e
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Labels: drink, execution success, food
Sep 16, 2010
Sep 13, 2010
journeyman
open at last! congratulations to journeyman: diana, tse wei, meg, dan, seth, and the rest of the team.
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Sep 9, 2010
ceaseless practice
Ceaseless practice usually suffices to produce the precise look of subtle imperfection.
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Labels: care, complexity, execution success, process, scalefree
Sep 8, 2010
fugue state
the tertiary state of fatigue where the nerves and senses lie bared to direct contact with the world and there is no longer distance or matter between the vision and the absorption, where the mind races, recording, lucid but empty, and beauty can become ours through osmosis.
sybille bedford, the sudden view (also titled a visit to don otavio)
also: seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.
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Labels: art, epistemology, scalefree, transient
Sep 3, 2010
mowing
There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.
What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself;
Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun,
Something, perhaps, about the lack of sound—
And that was why it whispered and did not speak.
It was no dream of the gift of idle hours,
Or easy gold at the hand of fay or elf:
Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak
To the earnest love that laid the swale in rows,
Not without feeble-pointed spikes of flowers
(Pale orchises), and scared a bright green snake.
The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.
My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.
robert frost, a boy's will, 1915
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Labels: craft, epistemology, poems, work
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