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J. K. Rowling’s Speech at Harvard Commencement

12 August 2008

On the benefits of failure and imagination. On failure: personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s [...]

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There are days

12 June 2008

There are days, Mama, when there is far too much to do to do anything much at all. This week has been pretty much like that.  It’s a week when I wish I was like earthworms or amoeba — slice me up and let me regenerate into six or seven mes.  (Biologists, don’t bother — [...]

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Changing Pace

10 May 2008

Underwater Sculpture Park in Grenada, West Indies by Jason de Caires Taylor   I came across this gem while surfing poets’ websites. It took my breath away. Go have a look.  Let’s tip our hats to the dream that became amazingly, hauntingly, real. Vicissitudes Grace Reef  

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