sleepy boston over yonder. as seen from the mit media lab, cambridge. 

"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

Carl Sagan, via Maria Popova of brainpickings (of course)

“Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.” - Jonah Lehrer on creativity and cities.

explore-blog:

Creativity is Subtraction – truth from Austin Kleon, part of his brilliant Newspaper Blackout project.

““When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.”  - Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

vernal magic.

awaiting the california street cable car. let there be more of this gold, always.

favorite cambridge haunt is in bloom.

smithsonianmag:

“Disguised Fun”

Photograph by Somnath Mukherjee

snaps from the favorite city.