When you’ve come to the end of the month, you’re about two-thirds of the way through the commonly held idea of six weeks it takes to seat a new habit. Continue reading →
This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence. — Leonard Bernstein Continue reading →
Tonight I spent some time outside with the daffodils. See all the photos here.
One last poem before the NaPoWriMo fades away for another year, just to wish you a happy May Day. In the grey brown woods this morning green clouds rolled along the ground Not much on May first is revealed but … Continue reading →
Please go to Brainpickings for the chance to read about Robert Frost and John F Kennedy and to hear Kennedy’s eulogy of Frost. We take great comfort in our nuclear stockpiles, our gross national product, our scientific and technological achievement, … Continue reading →
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.
