So, we must legislate and state clearly what our ideals and goals are as well as what behaviors are not acceptable in our society. And then, we must use the time while people are adapting to the new behaviors, to change their hearts. The work is not done. It must continue. Continue reading →
Billy Collins and Mark Pinsky both talk about getting your reader to the last couple lines of a poem, and giving the reader a reward, something to make it worthwhile. This poem, The Corn Baby by Mark Wunderlich, is a … Continue reading →
This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. — Alan W. Watts
From today’s The Writer’s Almanac, on the birthday of Fred Astaire: [Fred Astaire] said: “The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your … Continue reading →
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
