Hey music lovers in Michigan. I will be arriving to the mitten state sometime Tuesday the 29th, and will be ready to be welcomed back by your lovely faces. I cannot think of another way to do it than listening to phenomenal music and having a beer. Come on out to the Garden Bowl on May 30th welcome me back, check out Shovels and Rope and meet two of the most talented peeps - Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst.
May 2012
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Things to worry about:
Worry about courage
Worry about Cleanliness
Worry about efficiency
Worry about horsemanship
Worry about…
Things not to worry about:
Don’t worry about popular opinion
Don’t worry about dolls
Don’t worry about the past
Don’t worry about the future
Don’t worry about growing up
Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you
Don’t worry about triumph
Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault
Don’t worry about mosquitoes
Don’t worry about flies
Don’t worry about insects in general
Don’t worry about parents
Don’t worry about boys
Don’t worry about disappointments
Don’t worry about pleasures
Don’t worry about satisfactions
Things to think about:
What am I really aiming at?
How good am I really in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to:
(a) Scholarship
(b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them?
(c) Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it?
I love advice from fathers. Advice my father gave me and I remember whenever I get scared of change. ”Go. Go out there and live your life and try new things. Be happy. We’ll always be here and support you.”
In a 1933 letter to his 11-year-old daughter Scottie, F. Scott Fitzgerald produced this poignant and wise list of things to worry, not worry, and think about – the best father’s advice since John Steinbeck’s letter to his son on falling in love and this beautiful letter to 16-year-old Jackson Pollock by his dad.
From F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters.
(via explore-blog)
Fuck YEAH! You tell ‘em Foamy!
Jonathan Ian Mathers’ Foamy the Squirrel takes on North Carolina’s — and 30 other states’ — constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage (and, in several cases, other “non-holy” domestic unions).