Comments on: the frugal indulgent manifesto

By: The Frugal Indulgent Manifesto* » Teeny Manolo

The Frugal Indulgent Manifesto* » Teeny Manolo — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:32:19 +0000

[...] This post has been stolen wholesale from one of my other sites, where it lay pining like a neglected Cambodian orphan until being plucked from obscurity and [...]

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:42:15 +0000

Glad you liked it. The book is wonderful. Very Big City, but fabulousness, as we all know, is truly boundless.

By: brightfeather

brightfeather — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:27:19 +0000

I loved this post.

By: Roads

Roads — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:04:47 +0000

I love that Oscar Wilde quote, too – although I knew it for years without knowing its proper source.

And I spent at least a decade, believing that Chrissie Hynde was (even?) more profound than she really is:

“… In the streets, in the bars
We are all of us in the gutter
But some of us are looking at the stars”

The Pretenders – Message of Love (1981)

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:57:04 +0000

Thanks, Roads, that was a very generous comment. Believe me, I’m not all about the saccharine; I have an edge (just see raincoaster.com for that!). I’m posting half of these because they’re things I need to learn better. Typing them out helps me to internalize them.

I remember what Gloria Steinem said when told she didn’t look sixty. She said, “This is what sixty looks like.” We define ourselves; our circumstances don’t define us. That’s something that the rich can learn as well as the poor, even if they’ve less incentive. And, just like your Ryder Cup story, what we define ourselves as, we often become.

Oscar Wilde said, “All of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” I love that quote.