Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. —Bryan Stevenson Prologue: What Are You Angry About? One fall when I was living in China, years ago, I had an upper respiratory […]
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Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done. —Bryan Stevenson Prologue: What Are You Angry About? One fall when I was living in China, years ago, I had an upper respiratory […]
I don’t know how I have overlooked Thoreau during the first two months of the pandemic’s enforced “social isolation” regime. This is from the fifth chapter of Walden (1854), entitled “Solitude”: I find it wholesome to […]
There was an old man of Victoria Who suffered from chronic euphoria. The doc shook his head, And sadly he said, “There’s no more that I can do for ya.”
I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that hes up agen middle class morality all the […]
Why is writing so difficult? For many reasons. For example, writing is not natural, like talking or walking, so it requires a special effort. It also requires careful attention to lots of annoying details like […]
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