You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your creative muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories – science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
“Draco was the first legislator in ancient Athens who wrote a set of laws known for their misbalance between offense and punishment. People who fell into debt were often forced into slavery, and death was dished out as a sentence more often then not. While society has evolved and moved away from Draconian punishments, I think in a way the internet has not.
Visit any blog, forum or comment thread and you will be met with people spitting acid onto the thoughts, comments and creations of other people. The wall of anonymity has allowed people to slip into their ugliest suit and a wealth of information makes it easy to make people’s simple mistakes look stupid.
Too often the people who are brave enough to express their opinions or work are cut down and humiliated by small people. Don’t be a small person, don’t be a critic. Make things everyday, even if those things are mistakes.”
The recent weather at Noahs Ark Zoo Farm in Bristol seems to have had a warming effect on the relationships between some of the animals. The zoo’s male giraffe Gerald has amused visitors and staff by making close friends with the zebra family. The family of three Chapmans zebra - named Zebedee, Zara and Zelda - and the giraffes share a spacious paddock in the African continental section of North Somerset’s award-winning family park.
Lyrics: “Any minute now, my ship is coming in I’ll keep checking the horizon And I’ll stand on the bow, and feel the waves come crashing Come crashing down, down, down, on me
And you say, “Be still my love, Open up your heart, Let the light shine in.” But don’t you understand I already have a plan I’m waiting for my real life to begin
When I awoke today, suddenly nothing happened But in my dreams, I slew the dragon And down this beaten path, and up this cobbled lane I’m walking in my old footsteps, once again
And you say, “Just be here now, Forget about past, Your mask is wearing thin.” Just let me throw one more dice I know that I can win I’m waiting for my real life to begin
Any minute now, my ship is coming in I’ll keep checking the horizon And I’ll check my machine, there’s sure to be that call It’s gonna happen soon, soon, oh, so very soon It’s just that times are lean
And you say, “Be still my love, Open up your heart, Let the light shine in.” But don’t you understand Oh, I already have a plan I’m waiting for my real life to begin
On a clear day I can see, see a very long way Yeah, on a clear day I can see… See a very long way.”
