“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.” IfsKnowsWorldImportantDreamLanguageHoursDealsWrittenMissingCommunicationBusyMythOutside World Book:The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths Source: The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths
“I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.” YearsTwoHomeBigsSongNumbersWrittenMissingLongingTensionOpen RoadLonging For Home Author:James Taylor
“The highest praise a writer can give another is to say he wishes he had written his book. I wish I had written Forty Words for Sorrow. Giles Blunt has a tremendous talent. If you miss Forty Words for Sorrow, you'll miss one of best novels of 2001.” IfsGivingBookWishNovelWrittenTalentMissingSorrowHighestPraiseFortyBlunt Author:Tony Hillerman
“I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.” WritingMindMadeFacesSongRealizingOpinionWrittenHappenedMissingExampleProjectsNewsFollowingDeeperNewspapersParisThrownYour FaceAngleInsignificantAvoidedNuanceInsignificant ThingsNews Reporting Author:Jens Lekman
“In Japan, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well. So they have problem communicating with computers, so they really feel that what's missing from telephones and computer interfaces is this ability to move around in three-space.” FeelsWellsProblemMovingThreeLanguageAbilitySpaceWrittenMissingComputerCommunicateJapanTranslateTelephonesKeyboardsInterfacesWritten Language Author:Howard Rheingold
“You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?” WritingLooksNamesWrittenSeeingMissingBagsShellsHelloPostersPeanutsSidewalkSpelling Author:Lynda Barry