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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?

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.

From F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters.

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Happy Mardi Gras.

Happy Mardi Gras, my friends.  I hope this playlist will get you through your day with thoughts of dancing, warmth, humidity, gaslights, spirits, and celebration.  

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This is, like, best thing ever.  Today, anyway.

neil-gaiman:

Like it says on the YouTube wrapper…

At 8 in 8’s first and only live performance they follow a twitter suggestion to perform a mash up of Ben Folds’ song “You Don’t Know Me” while Neil Gaiman reads a story he wrote for the back of Amanda Palmer’s “Who Killed Amanda Palmer” Album and book project.
Watch in HD for the best audio/video quality.

8 in 8 are:
Ben Folds
Amanda Palmer
Neil Gaiman
Damian Kulash (of OK Go)

Ben on grand piano
Amanda on drums
Neil reading/vocals
Damian on tambourine


The group wrote and recorded 6 songs in 12 hours the night before in a project where they aimed to record 8 songs in 8 hours.


Listen to and Download the 8 in 8 album “Nighty Night” HERE:
http://music.amandapalmer.net/album/nighty-night

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neil-gaiman:

Tori’s LITTLE EARTHQUAKES came out 20 years ago.

(I was in the audience of this recording, done for the Jonathan Ross show. We were kids who liked talking to each other, so much, and she loved Sandman and I loved that she’d put me in a song. It seems like yesterday.)

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This has been cracking me up since yesterday.  Storefront theatre, I miss ye not a bit.  Mayhap that will change but … I’m enjoying full houses, working bathrooms, free parking, people having fun … it’s the little things.