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Dome looks awesome with snow in winter... But can't take for granted leaving work when it's still light out. #summer #dc #washington

#summer #washington #dc

talkin with @thebettynguyen #happyfriday

#happyfriday

Former Pres. Bill Clinton chats with Gwen Ifill about Karl Rove's attacks on Hillary's health: "First they say she faked her concussion, now they say she's auditioning for a part on 'The Walking Dead.'"

wishing i was here #latergram #delcoreservoir #delco

#delco #delcoreservoir #latergram

I'll be on MSNBC talking about Sen. Rand Paul, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and 2016 on their special coverage news program of the canonizations.

via WSJ, one of its "Five Shelfie Cliches." The Casual Magazine Tableau | To commemorate the delivery of an impressive periodical, the Instagrammer poses it next to attractive lifestyle indicators. This says: "I am versed in both the situation in Ukraine and juice presentation."

#wjs #shelfie

treedance

I replaced the church with journalism—two arenas which share many traits. A journalist, like a priest, is often thrown into extraordinary situations—fires, shootings, political campaigns and interviews with high-ranking officials. The priest stands in for God. The journalist stands in for the community at-large. The latter just felt more honest.

Happy Tuesday.

(via futurejournalismproject)

#journalism #storytelling #writing

happy easter monday. #tbt #latergram #delco

#delco #tbt #latergram

...The Free Lance: since April 1887; copy of first issue still tacked on my desk. Happy 127th bday, TDC! @DailyCollegian

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Teddy Roosevelt

#Theodore Roosevelt #quotes #motivation

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.

Kurt Vonngegut.

#mark twain

Dowd was the youngest of five children raised by her father, Mike, who was a D.C. police inspector, and her mother, Peggy, who died this past July and was the love of Dowd’s life so far. Dowd’s mentor, former Times managing editor Arthur Gelb, calls Peggy Dowd “the source, the fountain of Maureen’s humor and her Irish sensibilities and her intellectual take.” In her last years, her mother’s eyesight began to fail. “One day my phone rang, it was 7:30 in the morning, and my mother said, ‘Hello, operator, I’ve lost my sight and I need to be connected to a hospital.’ She meant to press zero but she had pressed redial,” Dowd says. “So I ran over and we get to the doctor’s building and she says, ‘I’m never . . . gonna . . . see . . . ’ And I thought she was going to say ‘your face,’ or something, but she goes, ‘Tim Russert’s face again.’ I went, Tim Russert?! What about me? It was hilarious. But I loved that about her. I’m the one at the newspaper, but she’s the real news junkie.” “I listened in on one of their conversations once and it was just like one of Maureen’s columns,” says McCurry. “That same kind of caustic commentary. I remember thinking, Her columns are letters to her mom.”

NYMag's 2005 profile of Maureen Dowd.

#Maureen Dowd

Walk On -- THE DEMO VERSION.

#bono #u2 #walk on #music

"Love, in the highest sense of the word, is the only thing that you can always take with you, in your heart. At some point you are going to have to lose everything else anyway."

Bono, on "Walk On."

#u2 #walk on #bono #music

I’ll also go in my notebook where things wait until the time is right. This would be the way that I work today. I’ve had variations of it over the years, but I do a lot of writing, so you build up a greater body of unreleased work over time and you end up with just a repository of interesting things. I’m not in any rush. I’m not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That’s not something I’ve ever really quite done.

Bruce, to RollingStone.

#Bruce Springsteen #writing #rolling stone #music

TOMORROW IS FRIDAY. snapped this in front of united Methodist bldg. on way into Janet Yellen hearing this morning. #dc #mandela @politico

#dc #mandela

You're welcome.

#music #sweet child o' mine #guns and roses #taken by trees

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