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Desultry
4 June 2013
¶ JFK’s favorite fish chowder (we think there’s too much celery) @ A Continuous Lean.
¶ They made them so that Choire Sicha could have a fit: single-pleated chinos. (The Awl)
¶ Roman Empire ruins discovered in Inwood! (Scouting New York)
¶ #occupygezi, a Tumblr from Istanbul. (via kottke.org)
¶ Ta-Nehisi Coates @ Days of Yore.
There was a great degree of failure in my life and I never really… You know, the way I came up, it quickly became clear to me that no person has the right to success. There’s no guarantee to success at all; you may get it or you may not. You can like something and you can be bad at it and you can keep doing it or you can be not great at it and you can keep going or you can be mediocre at it and you can keep doing it. You keep doing it because you like it, just because you like it, for you, it’s yours, it’s private, you own it. Not to please other people, not to impress nobody.
I wasn’t really good at school, I wasn’t an athlete, I wasn’t particularly good with girls, I didn’t have any of that. I wasn’t a social outcast; I had pretty good social skills and was well-liked among my crowd, so I didn’t have the sort of nerd-geek experience. But I did have the experience of not being particularly good at anything measurable as a young child.
And I went through a long period, once I got to writing, of not being very successful but I kept doing it because I liked it.
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