A Few Things

As a reader, writer, and English major, words are a big part of my life. I really like words, and I like it best when those words are strung together to make really great sentences. I like to collect quotes. If you hang around me for more than hour, you will quickly realize if you say something that strikes a chord or makes me laugh, I will quote you on various social media sites. It's just what I do.

Anyway, lately I've found a lot of words that I want to share with everyone. Words are good. I hope you appreciate these as much as I do.

01. I'm a sap, and Thought Catalog's 8 Ways To Say I Love You really gets to me.

02. All of the words Augusten Burroughs says are the best words.

03. Recently, Kyla Roma wrote this inspiring post about creativity and patience. It starts off with an awesome quote, too, so it's doubly wonderful.

04. Last week, I discovered Letters of Note, a website that compiles letters of all kinds from all different people. In short, it's the best website to ever be created, and I'm incredibly inspired by what I've read there. Two of my favorites are this one from Stieg Larsson to his partner, and this one from John Steinbeck to his son.

05. "Skin" is one of my favorites off of Boy's album Mutual Friends (you know, the one I had shipped from Germany). The acoustic version is even better, as acoustic versions usually are.


-Maggie

A Few Things

01.



02. September is my favorite month for many reasons–the main one being the fashion. And with the fashion comes the much anticipated September issues of all of my favorite magazines. I picked up Vogue a few weeks ago, and was very nearly moved to tears by the 900+ pages of perfection I held in my hands. Like, I had a legitimate emotional reaction when I saw the picture below. It is now hanging on my bulletin board. This is the kind of person I am.

03. "Find something you're passionate about and stay tremendously interested in it."

–Julia Child

04. The Color Me Rad 5K my friends and I signed up for was a blast. None of us were physically prepared to run an entire 5K, but the whole event was incredibly laid-back (most people didn't run at all) and we got free t-shirts and sunglasses, so it was great. KaCee somehow managed to get the most color on her even though she didn't run, and Melany barely got any, which is the kind of thing that would happen to Melany.

05. Joy the Baker is a fabulous recipe blog run by a fabulous lady named–you guessed it–Joy. Aside from the delish recipe posts (like, really, so good) accompanied by her funny writing, she has her Notes to Self series. Her most recent one struck a chord. Go read it.

06.

-Maggie

A Few Things

01. Somewhere during the process of revamping my blog, I decided I needed to hide some of my older posts. Today, I finally did that. So if you wanted to read anything I posted before August 2010, I am terribly sorry, but I assure you, you are not missing much.

02. One day, amateur photographer Brandon Stanton decided to he should assemble "a photographic census" of New York City and simply started asking people if he could take their picture. The result of this has been over 3000 portraits that make up Humans of New York. A few months ago, I stumbled upon his blog and spent hours looking through all the posts, and felt so inspired. His portraits are only getting better and his project more popular. Here are a few of my recent favorites.

03. My buddies (or two of them, anyway) and I have signed up for our first 5K! We all wanted to get in shape again, but needed something to work towards so we could stay motivated. The Color Me Rad 5K seemed like the perfect (and funnest) way to do that. As we run, we'll be pelted with colored powder similar to what you would see at a Holi festival, so by the end we'll be exhausted, but polychromatic. Maybe we'll see you in Fort Worth on September 8th!

04. 

05. "All improvements, transformations, achievements, liberations; everything you want to change about yourself and your life; everything you want to make happen, any obstacle you want to overcome, any crisis you must survive–the prerequisite is being able to allow yourself to feel whatever it is you feel and not pretend to feel something you don't."

This Is How by Augusten Burroughs

06. Only 20 days until I leave for Seattle, and 25 until I meet the Blogger Family.

-Maggie

New York, New York

"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."

-Thomas Wolfe

New York City is wonderful, but you already knew that. I, too, knew that before I went. I knew I would love it because it's New York. How could I not? We're talking about the greatest city in the world here. Of course, of course I would love it. And I did love it, and I do. I immediately felt at home.

It's a city people fall in love with for a reason, and you can't really explain it, but you can feel it. The feeling is acute. It happens all at once and swallows you up as you're walking through the Village in the cold or riding the subway back to Brooklyn late at night. You can't help but grin as you take in the graffitied buildings and the taxis weaving through traffic and the eclectic people walking alongside you.

It is simply New York, and it has seized a piece of me in the same way Austin has. You can expect to see me back there for good one day–with Melany in tow, of course, as I couldn't possibly open a second coffee shop by myself.

-Maggie