"determine who you are"
Nov. 17th, 2007 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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sneezythesquid! I hope you have a fantastic day and many, many more, my friend.
A few notes of interest...
In Literature News
* The Guardian offers a list of the Top 10 Dystopian Novels for Teenagers.
* Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday, the first Native American recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and the Oklahoma Centennial Poet Laureate, has received the U.S. National Medal of Arts, the highest national honor for artistic excellence.
* Spokane and Coeur d'Alene author Sherman Alexie has won the National Book Award for his novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian.
In Media News
Can't Take The Sky is a new radio station for those who enjoy the music of Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity: folk, Firefilk, filk, Asian, soundtracks, music about space, science fiction songs, etc. It's Browncoat radio!
Ask yourself how you would like to be known. Don't let yourself be determined by others. And this is especially true where young people are concerned, because everybody wants to determine them. And they have very few defenses against that. So I say, for God's sake, you know, don't let other people tell you who you are. If I had let people tell me who I was, I would have dropped back there somewhere. Determine who you are, and don't let anybody else do it for you. That's the best advice I can give a young person.
- N. Scott Momaday, 2001 interview
sneezythesquid! I hope you have a fantastic day and many, many more, my friend.A few notes of interest...
In Literature News
* The Guardian offers a list of the Top 10 Dystopian Novels for Teenagers.
* Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday, the first Native American recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and the Oklahoma Centennial Poet Laureate, has received the U.S. National Medal of Arts, the highest national honor for artistic excellence.
* Spokane and Coeur d'Alene author Sherman Alexie has won the National Book Award for his novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian.
In Media News
Can't Take The Sky is a new radio station for those who enjoy the music of Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity: folk, Firefilk, filk, Asian, soundtracks, music about space, science fiction songs, etc. It's Browncoat radio!
Ask yourself how you would like to be known. Don't let yourself be determined by others. And this is especially true where young people are concerned, because everybody wants to determine them. And they have very few defenses against that. So I say, for God's sake, you know, don't let other people tell you who you are. If I had let people tell me who I was, I would have dropped back there somewhere. Determine who you are, and don't let anybody else do it for you. That's the best advice I can give a young person.
- N. Scott Momaday, 2001 interview
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Date: 2007-11-17 02:08 pm (UTC)(I suddenly want that on a t-shirt, lol)
Also... Can't Take the Sky is awesome. Thanks for the link. :)
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Date: 2007-11-18 01:47 pm (UTC)I'm really excited about discovering "Can't Take the Sky." The music is great! I hope you enjoy it, too.
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Date: 2007-11-18 05:48 pm (UTC)Awesome. My favorite 365 stations have all gone premium lately so I'm looking for new ones. Even though I'm not a Browncoat yet...
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Date: 2007-11-19 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-19 04:34 pm (UTC)Yayyy for browncoat radio!
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Date: 2007-11-19 10:35 pm (UTC)So, are you open-minded about possible conversion to Browncoatism? Because I'm open-minded about proselytizing. :)
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Date: 2007-11-19 10:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-19 10:37 pm (UTC)I am loving this Browncoat radio. :) Great icon, BTW!
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Date: 2007-11-26 11:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-26 12:05 pm (UTC)