Photo of White Wagtail via Head Like An Orange. The White Wagtail is the national bird of Latvia.
Tag: Monday
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call: Breakfast
Short-toed Treecreeper via Head Like an Orange. The bird is found in woodlands through much of the warmer regions of Europe and into north Africa. It is a resident in woodlands throughout its range, and nests in tree crevices or behind bark flakes, laying about six eggs. This common, unwary, but inconspicuous species feeds mainly on insects which are picked from the tree trunk as the treecreeper ascends with short hops.
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves
are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
~ Okakura Kakuzo, from The Book Of Tea
Curated wall art and fine art photography by Olga Barantseva.
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call…
What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?
~ Maria Callas, in an interview in the London Observer, 1970 (via The Writer Who Stayed By William Zinsser)
Notes: Quote via The Hammockpapers. Portrait: Maria Callas Fan Club
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call…
I take pride in professionalism. I am willing to do things that other people find ridiculous if I have agreed to appear at a certain festival or school. Once I say yes I don’t do otherwise. I will drive four hours to teach a class and then turn around and drive straight home… I will work under bad circumstances, and I will feel virtuous. Laurel sometimes puts it this way: Rick likes it when it sucks. I can’t address the origin of this particular way of being, the professionalism just is. It makes it easier for me to wake up in the morning, because I know what I have to do… I felt (and feel still) like showing up for class keeps me tethered to the world.
~ Rick Moody, The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony (August 6, 2019)
Photo of Rick Moody via Seven Days