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Pancakes & French Fries

Compositions

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11 Jan

U is for Unstyled Life
I read every night before I got to bed. Every night, even when I am sick, tired, or both. I am usually reading something from my Unread Library, but when I am not up for something new, I turn to favorite passages from a well-thumbed collection of books scattered around the house. A paragraph or two, sometimes more, that gave me pause. A paragraph or two, sometimes more, that made me think, cry, laugh, sigh, rejoice, gasp, cheer, cringe, and pull my hair out in frustration. A paragraph or two, sometimes more, that would make me feel small, and talentless, and insignificant if the joy I get from reading something amazing didn’t always supersede my ego. It always does.

I can’t begrudge an author their undeniable talent, not when it enriches my life so much. Instead, I want to celebrate it by taking those sentences and paragraphs that are too good to read once and share them with you. Along with the passages, I will include pictures, found or taken, that are literal or symbolic interpretations of the text. They are Compositions, a series about the best words, with pictures. A composition within a composition that, hopefully, will inspire you to pick up the original and read it for your own pleasure.

Books

You can laugh; I know it’s kind of nerdy. But I’m still super excited. I don’t imagine my pictures will come close to doing any of the books justice, but it will be fun to try and good for building my photography skills, another goal I had for this year. I’ll be posting my first one soon, hopefully tomorrow if I get an okay from the publisher. I wrote it out over the summer and included my favorite pictures of me and the boys. Actually, some of the only pictures I have of me and the boys. (I need to work on that.) I only had the nerve to show Nicole and Tristan a couple of months ago around my birthday. Consensus: nerdy, but me. Then I decided to scrap the idea, for reasons I already mentioned yesterday.

Last week, when I found out I lost my pictures from last year, I realized those pictures of me and the boys were in the group that were gone. Devastation. Then, I remembered my post from over the summer and sure enough, there they were, hidden in my blog archives. My favorite words with my favorite pictures of us. I considered it a sign. To thine own self be true…even if thineself is a goofball.

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Comments

  1. annie says

    January 11, 2011 at 6:00 am

    oh, i cannot wait for this series! what a fabulous and original idea!

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  2. Jen A says

    January 11, 2011 at 7:12 am

    I think this sounds just lovely. Nerdy-schmerdy – if loving books makes you a nerd, then I think the whole WORLD should be nerds. And I don’t know how much work your photography skills need – I already want that 2nd picture above in your post framed and hanging on my wall!

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  3. Tamara says

    January 11, 2011 at 7:34 am

    fantastic idea! i look forward to reading the passages that you pick. and it sounds like you found yet another positive of having a blog…emergency picture storage backup. :) i enjoy reading what you write!

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  4. Kathy says

    January 11, 2011 at 7:57 am

    Oh! What a cool idea! Even more to look forward to “PaFF”

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  5. Kirsty says

    January 11, 2011 at 8:25 am

    I am so exciting about this new series! I love to nerd out over good books/articles/anything cerebral. :)

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  6. Danielle says

    January 11, 2011 at 8:58 am

    Looking forward to the new series! If loving books is wrong I don’t want to be right!

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  7. Beth R. says

    January 11, 2011 at 9:40 am

    I think this is a great idea! I love books, lyrics, poetry, any form of the written word, and I think this is a wonderful idea to celebrate it.

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  8. Amy says

    January 11, 2011 at 10:18 am

    I love it. sigh.

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  9. Miss B. says

    January 11, 2011 at 12:28 pm

    I know this will be a fabulous, original, completely creative and inspiring series. I also believe a lot of us that read your smart and witty prose here have a bit of the nerd gene as well;)

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  10. Erin (mrs_danderfluff) says

    January 11, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    Um, I love this idea. LOVE.

    If I had a blog I’d totally steal it from you. ;)

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  11. Rachel (heart of light) says

    January 11, 2011 at 1:21 pm

    Super excited! You know that most of us blog readers are real life readers too? At least, I’m pretty sure that’s the case. We’re all closeted (or not so closeted) nerds.

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    • Jules says

      January 11, 2011 at 6:42 pm

      I would say so, and I would imagine most of the people here read more than the average bear.

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  12. Jules says

    January 11, 2011 at 6:41 pm

    Yay! I’m so glad I will be around such great company! :)

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  13. Making it Lovely says

    January 11, 2011 at 7:43 pm

    I’m so glad you’re finally moving forward with this! It’s going to be great.

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  14. Anna says

    January 11, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    I think this is a fantastic idea. I am very much looking forward to seeing your Compositions.

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  15. Jessica says

    January 12, 2011 at 6:20 am

    you are awesome

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  16. Toi says

    January 12, 2011 at 7:52 am

    Did you hear that? That was me squeeing with delight over this series. I can’t wait!

    Reply
  17. Indy says

    May 21, 2011 at 6:05 pm

    That?s more than sesbnlie! That?s a great post!

    Reply

Trackbacks

  1. To the Lighthouse, Virgina Woolf says:
    January 12, 2011 at 12:02 am

    […] Learn more about Compositions here. […]

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  2. Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie says:
    February 9, 2011 at 1:42 pm

    […] more about Compositions here, and read all the Compositions in the series […]

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  3. Last Night I Sang to the Monster « miss shortskirt says:
    February 10, 2011 at 11:14 am

    […] Thanks to Jules for enabling the advancement and development of Blog Nerdiness. […]

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  4. Unstyled Life says:
    March 18, 2011 at 8:27 am

    […] rocks and plants, even though I am not a high school science teacher. My books are still stacked on the green secretary for all the world to see, and I only blushed  a little when one family friend asked if I […]

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  5. last night i sang « her life with books says:
    November 18, 2011 at 7:04 am

    […] Thanks to Jules for enabling the advancement and development of Blog Nerdiness. […]

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  6. The Witch of Portobello, Paulo Coelho : Pancakes and French Fries says:
    November 25, 2011 at 5:52 pm

    […] more about Compositions here, and read all the Compositions in the series here. […]

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