Tennessee Grace

Documenting my new adventures across the great state of Tennessee

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Some necessary Cafe E because Monday. #coffee #littleeclectic #mudisland

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 Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)

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missing my city.

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Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

John 11:25-26

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Rothko.

He's one of the very few religious painters of our time. And when you go to the Rothko room in the Tate, or the one in Texas, there is a deeply spiritual sense. The pictures in the Tate for instance have definite biblical overtones. Paintings are difficult to discuss; one has to be aware of falling into cliched similes. But I think that those extraordinary pillared pictures look like huge stone gateways to darkness.

As well as being tragic, his paintings have an extraordinary burr of vibrancy.

John Banville, on his Mark Rothko "moment."

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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

Ira Glass