So, a little voice in my head is whispering, “Your readers know this already. EVERYONE knows it. YOU know it. There is no point to elaborating it again.” But I think there is a point, and what it really has to do with is my continuing process of “learning in public” that I practice here. […]
I found this image at And Today’s Idiom Is…, a blog for non-native English speakers. It strikes me as an excellent excuse for a blog. Meanwhile, I’m trying to remember what my excuse–er, purpose–is. In 2016 I spent an inordinate amount of time reading helpful books. Books about habits and writing and books about writers […]
Today I’m attempting to hunker down and work on poetry — all day. What I keep finding myself thinking of, however, being distracted by, is how very very differently some people I love dearly see the world, from how I see it. The publications I read are not reporting jubilantly on the inauguration. Rather, there’s […]
I spent today hanging out with a very bad cold, and reading until my eyes burned. Here’s Parker Palmer on the importance of contemplation and its place in the world — not simply for “intellectuals,” but for everyone: “Rightly understood, contemplation and action are standard features of ordinary, everyday life. Our contemplative action may be […]