January 2011
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As usual, I was thinking about the moments of the past, letting my memory rush over them like water rushing over the stones on the bottom of a stream. I was even thinking a little about the future, that place where people are doing a dance we cannot imagine, a dance whose name we can only guess. - Excerpt from “Nostalgia” by Billy Collins  Happy New Year.
Jan 1st
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December 2010
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For our part we cast in our lot with sensation and reason, content to accept life as the test of our thinking, and resolved, if we can, to add thinking to our life. We shall fall into many errors, and there is no surety that we shall find happiness in the end; the joy of understanding is a joy shot through with pain, even like the lovers’ ecstasy. We shall shed many certainties as our thought...
Dec 30th
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“People exist by virtue of the help they give to one another. That’s what I believe. Helping people improves the helped person’s life and keeps the helping person human. I know how much rottenness there is in people. If I thought only of the ugliness in human beings, I would despair. So I try also to remind myself of the many people in this world who help one another.” -...
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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“Does an elephant really remember everything, Saul?” “That’s what people say.” “It must feel good to be able to remember everything. I wish I could remember everything.” “Why?” “Because I’d be the smartest man in the whole world. No one could fool me.” “You think so? Why?” “Because I’d always know what...
Dec 26th
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 19th
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Anna Imroth by Carl Sandburg  Cross the hands over the breast here—so. Straighten the legs a little more—so. And call for the wagon to come and take her home. Her mother will cry some and so will her sisters and brothers. But all of the others got down and they are safe and this is the only one of the factory girls who wasn’t lucky in making the jump when the fire broke.  It is the hand of God...
Dec 18th
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Dec 16th
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“Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.” - Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
Dec 14th
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ListenIf you have never listened to this song, I suggest...
Dec 12th
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WatchWatch
Check out this short film titled Thirty Century Man, which includes a cut of one of Mogwai’s new tracks, “How to Be a Werewolf” from their new album Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. The band cut a new version of the song specifically for the film, which follows champion cyclist James Bowthorpe through the Norwegian landscape. If this doesn’t make you want to ride a...
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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“Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.”  - Carl Sandburg
Dec 6th
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The Second Slaughter BY LUCIA PERILLO Achilles slays the man who slayed his friend, pierces the corpse behind the heels and drags it behind his chariot like the cans that trail a bride and groom. Then he lays out a banquet for his men, oxen and goats and pigs and sheep; the soldiers eat until a greasy moonbeam lights their beards. The first slaughter is for victory, but the second slaughter is...
Dec 5th
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When We Sold the Tent by Rhina P. Espaillat When we sold the tent we threw in the Grand Canyon with its shawl of pines, lap full of cones and chipmunks and crooked seams of river. We let them have the parched white moonscapes of Utah, and Colorado’s  magnificat of flowers sunbursting hill after hill. Long gentle stretches of Wyoming, rain outside some sad Idaho town where the children,...
Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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