As much as I am sometimes tempted to just leave society behind and move to a cabin in the woods with my bag of lentils and my copy of On Walden Pond, I must admit that being forced into two computer-assisted journalism classes this semester did have an affect on me … eventually.
I am now hooked on Google Reader, a service which, essentially, combines all of the blogs and website updates I follow into one page and, thus, encourages me to follow twice as many blogs/site updates as I would have otherwise. (Sneaky Google!)
And so it is that I came upon a blog from the New York Times called And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman. (Discovered through Google Reader’s even more sneaky blog-suggestion feature.)
It makes me feel a little like I’m reading a children’s book, a little like I’m listening to some upbeat classical music and a little like I’m critiquing society—but in a gentle, loving way, akin to a grandparent laughing at the folly of a grandchild’s fashion choices. Thought I’d pass it along.
