Living the Questions

A thing of beauty

listening to

Vampire Weekend - Contra

Corinne Bailey Rae - The Sea

Paste Magazine Sampler #59

Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

CURRENT FAVes

Quote: “When we don’t know, we don’t judge. And when we don’t judge, we see things in a different light.” From Hand Wash Cold by Karen Maezen Miller, available in April.

Just finished reading: A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias, Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, Plainsong by Kurt Haruf, The Unfinished Angel by Sharon Creech, Push by Sapphire

Reading now: Beyond the Bedroom Wall by Larry Woiwode, The Vagrants by Yiyun Li

Movies: No Country for Old Men, Young at Heart, Bella, Lars and the Real Girl, Savage Grace, Big Kahuna, Gone Baby Gone, 3:10 to Yuma, The Diving Bell & the Butterfly, The Reader, Revolutionary Road, 500 Days of Summer, The Girl in the Cafe

TV Shows: Sadness. Mad Men is OVER! 30 Rock. Desperate Housewives, Season 2. Weeds, Season 5. The Tudors, Season 3.

Music: Coldplay, Bon Iver, The Fray, Eleni Mandell, Kate Campbell, Regina Spektor, Sea Wolf

Travel Destination: A weekend getaway in the middle of February...and ooh, lots of readings and signings being scheduled.

Go to archive

Elissa Elliott is an (imperfect) mother, a (recovered) former high school teacher, and the (happy) author of Eve: A Novel of the First Woman, published by Bantam Dell in January of 2009.

elissa elliott

REcommendations (with links)

1.Orla Kiely journals at Jasper + Black.
2.Bamboletta Doll Raffle for Haiti.
3.Crafters for Haiti at One Pretty Thing.
4.Direct Relief International for Haiti donations.
5.Richard Shilling on Land Art for Kids at Artful Parent.
6.“In Defense of Reading...Which Should Need No Defense” at Camp Creek Blog.
7.DIY Valentine’s Day Goodie Bags from Kathleen at Twig & Thistle. The floral ones here and the brownie bags here.
8.Free pdf files of Marshall Alexander’s paper toys. Very cool. Check out Max from Where the Wild Things Are.
9.Make a rainbow cake. Recipe at Whatever.
10.Kerri Miller’s Midmorning author interviews.

good links

Cheerio Road

Books & Culture

Image Journal (sign up for their ImageUpdate newsletter)

Loft Literary Center

Paste Magazine

Speaking of Faith

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. --Rainer Maria Rilke in Letters to a Young Poet