Catherine Sullivan

Precisely! The very best way to learn how to write is to read. Everything.

Viktor Frankl, a non-negotiable skill

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” — René Descartes

Knowledge is having the right answers. Intelligence is asking the right questions. Wisdom is knowing when to ask the right questions. —Professor Richard Feynman

Carl Sagan on books: "What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years."

Rudyard Kipling, does he ever miss?

Always worth reposting.

In 2016 Norway gave every 5-year-old child an iPad. Within a few years, Norway's reading scores plummeted and dropped below the OECD average. They ranked dead last out of 65 countries. Now Norway is spending millions of dollars to reverse this trend and get people reading.

One of the greatest geniuses of all time was born on this day exactly 574 years ago. This is one of the most stunning designs Leonardo da Vinci ever came up with: the staircase of Château de La Rochefoucauld.

“Fragile Giants” under the cherry blossoms on Park Avenue in NYC The cherry blossoms on Park Avenue in Manhattan (34th-38th Sts) are in peak bloom. You can still view the open-air art exhibition featuring monumental animal sculptures by Michel Bassompierre through May 11.

wooow

Prague is an architecture lover’s dream.

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

Periodic reminder that the word *myself* is a *reflexive* pronoun, used when the subject and the object of a sentence are the same entity. Correct: "I, myself, can't believe I still need to teach this." Incorrect: "Send the report to myself and Johnny." Please and thank you.

George Washington, how to approach friendship

Rare picture of a tree sneaking out of the woods.

NASA's Artemis II just released the first photo of the far side

I really dislike the corporate use of the word action. As in "who is actioning this?" or "it has been actioned." Why is plain-spoken English so foreign in the office?

@MerriamWebster 😆

We have a standing meeting about this word twice a week every two weeks.

This is Amaury Guichon and he made this entire Easter basket out of chocolate. I've never seen anything like this before. It's mesmerizing!! 🐇