tributaries

my new favourite superhero: wordgirl. she's an alien. from the planet Lexicon. and she's here to fight evildoers and teach your little ones about words like "ruckus" and "vegetarian." we watched all the cute 2-minute episodes on the website yesterday. i love it. make fun of me if you must.

while we're on the topic of words, i want to share all the very best quotes out of Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style:

"... there are no paths at all where there are no shared desires and directions."

"... the greatest threat to communication is not difference but sameness. Communication ceases when one being is no different from another: when there is nothing strange to wonder at and no new information to exchange."

and these from an interview the man did for typebooks.com:

"The most powerful type and design tools in the world are the pencil and the pen, which have been pretty accessible and affordable for quite a while. Some people, it is true, are so enchanted by the computer that they now can’t draw or write by hand, just as some are so enchanted by the car that they’re incapable of walking."

"The masters of the art, it seems to me, are those who never stop apprenticing."

the books is magic and full of lovely metaphors, a mix of things i already know and things i didn't know.
today i'm looking through a very old box of high school stuff. it seems to be full of mistakes and delusions and advice i didn't take. when i get to the bottom, what am i going to do with it all?

cut it up into pieces. dissect the past. make something new.