3 Jul 2006

I am inspired by the home page of the New York Times. It makes me think that I can do things, not of anything like spectacular beauty, but something like the structure of the layout: clean, competent, and useful. It is a mundane thing that gives me pleasure, not created out of any genius, and most probably not from the hand of one individual: this is the capacity of the human being when in fine of mind, I could say. It makes me feel as if I could accomplish something good, if I only put some spit and polish into it, if I only worked hard at something. It says to me that things are possible, practical things, that which has effect in day to day life. I don’t know how many others have felt these things about it; I suspect as most things, it will be taken for granted. But that is part of its purpose: how neat. Not all things to be must change the whole world for someone to notice.

posted by John H. Doe @ 12:41 pm

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