TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Michael Mistretta on reading:

Maybe it goes back to my childhood: spending the cold and howling winter night inside, sitting around a fire. I’d sit for hours in a navy-blue beanbag chair with a hot cocoa close at hand, reading book after book while acoustic music played softly in the background. In fact, it’s in that same atmosphere that I’m writing these words now: in the same beanbag chair around the same fireplace, albeit a slightly different taste in music.

This is Michael’s attempt at capturing his ideal way to read and, more importantly, the feeling of sitting down with a good book.

Michael applies it to his RSS feed reader — he wants that same feeling whenever he opens it, the relaxed comfort of knowing you are reading something truly worth reading, and that for half an hour, nothing else matters more in the world than the words on the page.

Not many weblogs create that feeling, but there are a few — and there is something magnificent about good writing. That, too, is my goal when I write: to publish something worth reading.