Lessons from the city, NYC |
Walking even a short distance in Manhattan forces you to dodge a variety of homeless people. Some of them live in room-sized shelters they've managed to concoct out of shopping carts and scaffol...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:13:00 GMT |
She's Got a Way with Words |
I've quoted more Annie Dillard here than I probably should have, but here's another good one - this time from For the Time Being. These quotes tend toward the macabre, and I like to provide them...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:49:00 GMT |
My Letter to Myself |
I resolve: To pull the earpiece out. Just pray its tendrils don't uproot my brains in the process. The glistening strand of gray matter will no doubt stain the carpet. What Fau...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:57:00 GMT |
Down Pedro! Down boy!! |
For awhile now, I've been cycling through the slender CD case in my car and finding myself bored of the music there. So, for variety's sake, I subbed in some fresh discs from my cache at home.&n...
Posted by on Tue, 30 May 2006 22:46:00 GMT |
Thus Spake My Inner Tree-Hugger |
My brother Kevin introduced me to a great little book The River Why by David James Duncan. Here's Gus the narrator on the morality of fishing:
Was it the death of the fish that bothered me...
Posted by on Mon, 22 May 2006 20:21:00 GMT |
No Warm Fuzzy Feelings Here |
We don't often like to think about the details of war, violence in general, or extreme human rights abuses, but sometimes they help remind us what our response should be. Following are a fe...
Posted by on Wed, 03 May 2006 07:25:00 GMT |
We Can and Should |
Excerpted from a piece by Alan Jacobs in Books & Culture:
I think it would be wonderful if some large and wealthy American church would have to cut staff and programs (or better yet, actua...
Posted by on Mon, 01 May 2006 11:42:00 GMT |
Entity & Identity |
Here is Charlie Citrine again, in Bellow's Humboldt's Gift, discussing with his girlfriend Renata the tragedy of his friend, the poet Von Humboldt Fleisher:
"There are a few things I have ...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:38:00 GMT |
On Things Boring |
Here is Saul Bellow, as Charlie Citrine, in Humboldt's Gift, musing on death and boredom:
The human being, more and more oppre...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:25:00 GMT |
Chomp or Fast |
I don't know if anyone is reading these Annie Dillard quotes, but I really enjoy them, so here's another (don't worry, I'm almost done with the book, so these won't last forever):
It is chomp o...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:42:00 GMT |
