Amazing works! Would love to see this interaction someday here in Asia!
The importance of the creative class: click for a good read!
Always a right <3
Inspired to take things on my own. Don’t get intimidated - everyone really does have a weakness that you can spot
So I’m WAYYYY behind on any blogging/posting/voicing my thoughts and emotions - and not just on this forum. I’ve realized for some time now how passive I can be, whether cuz I’m scared, trying to be respectful, I’m not sure. But one thing is for sure, when people start questioning or playing around with my time and emotions I AM going to start standing up.
Since i’m getting a new house, finished that dreadful but extremely insightful internship, getting round to my thesis, building up my resume, starting to apply for jobs, beginning a new life almost - at least a new way to use my time - I WILL stand up for myself. Screw being ‘nice’ and ‘respectful’ 24/7. Time to speak up
Diana, August 2011
Eulogy for Diana Gribble
(13 April 1942 — 4 October 2011)
People come into your life and they change it, they become part of your biography. But a rare few change the person you are. Or perhaps, you change yourself because of their presence; in hers I had the instinct of wanting to be a better person. Diana had the gift of seeing you in the round, with great and sometimes unsettling clarity, and she gave the impression of treating everyone as distinctive individuals — with her, we had our own URLs. And in that generosity she made us conscious of our own uniqueness.
A few weeks ago, I sent her a card daring to ask: What was it all for? I dared, because she was the kind of person who would entertain the question. She said to come see her. We sat and gossiped — (endlessly curious and engaged, she wished she could be here to see who would win next year’s Presidential election) — and eventually we came back to the question. She said: ‘It’s what I believed all along, it’s the quote from The Dean’s December.’ The book by Saul Bellow. She had referred to this many times over the years, and she quoted from it now:
‘This world as you experience it is your direct personal fate.’
It was important to her to see without illusions. I think of it as Diana’s Paradox: to see the world as it is and to accept it … and then her enthusiasms drove her to change what was around her. We could call it a Reality Enhancing Field. The change was to increase interest, and fun, and joy; she was a realist, but not a mere materialist — she had a deep feeling for family and friendship and community.
She departed inexplicably too soon, but the time she shared directly with so many people or through her publishing or business life becomes part of our own personal fates. The last paradox is that even as we have lost her, we bear her away with us. Welcome, Diana.
I know this is weird, but I read this post on a blog, http://blogs.crikey.com.au/culture-mulcher/. I don’t know who Diana Gribble is, but just reading that she made such a difference and was known as such a remarkable human being made me want to post it. Now I shall go Google her!
