To be faire, I think we're all idiots!
One of the things I love most about reading literary non-fiction is that the works become cryptic maps to other great works. Thanks to Wendell Berry (WHAT ARE People FOR?, (1990)) for the introduction. I’ve only just started exploring his works, but this one touched me deeply this morning. Good poetry does that…touches you where you…
I find myself writing this with a much heavier heart than I had thought possible given that it is to be a piece about politics, a topic that very rarely inspires my passions. At least to date, I am not a political beast. I don’t ascribe to party politics and do not have a 100%…
I am being so silly because I pity you so much. I pity all of us so much. Life is going to be very tough again, just as soon as this is over. And the most useful thought we can hold when all hell cuts loose again is that we are not members of different…
It occurred to him that Diane [Arbus] hadn’t gotten her tiny white self there and then just accidentally snapped those pictures. They represented a conspiracy between the shims and the photographer. Between dwarf and Diane. The huntress was implicated in those images, and their effect on Bob’s psyche implicated him as well, as if the photographs…
I learned that day that there didn’t seem to be a place for a person describing a snowflake on a mitten. After that I was quiet about what I saw so I wouldn’t make a fool of myself. I learned to be quiet about beauty. from Poemcrazy by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched…
We don’t deepen our reading enjoyment by immediately comprehending every word, sentence, paragraph and reference. We deepen it by grappling with the partly understood, the unfamiliar, the phrase or idea that forces us to think. from the Preface of How to Use the Power of the Printed Word Edited by Billings S. Fuess, Jr (Preface by…
IN AN AGE GONE STALE through the complex of bureaucratic interdependencies, with its tedious labyrinth of technical specializations, each contingent upon the next, and all aimed to converge into a single totality of meaning, it is a refreshing moment indeed when one comes across an area of human endeavour absolutely sufficient unto itself, pure and…
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Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of the knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration, and clear truth. from Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of…
i hope i diewarmedby the life that i triedto live from The Life I Led in the compilation The Women and the Men Poems by Nikki Giovanni Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.