Happy Life Plan: Days 8/100
Note to Self — Two steps forward, one step back will still get you there.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. — Albert Einstein
My Bradbury Education
But that means that every night then, before you go to bed, you’re stuffing your head with one poem, one short story, one essay — at the end of a thousand nights, Jesus God, you’ll be full of stuff, won’t you? — Ray Bradbury
Everyday, I’m enjoying a piece of art, reflecting on a quote of the day, and reading a poem, an essay and a short story. Thank you, Mr. Bradbury!
Today’s Poem: The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams (1938)
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
Today’s Essay: Where do you get your ideas by Neil Gaiman
The Ideas aren’t the hard bit. They’re a small component of the whole. Creating believable people who do more or less what you tell them to is much harder. And hardest by far is the process of simply…
