Today’s One-Liner (#129)
My idea in my story telling is to make Jews better Jews, and Christians better Christians, and in general, if possible at all, make man a little bit warmer, so he will not feel crushed…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Today’s One-Liner (#128)
There are few things… that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the Fair Sex. –Samuel Johnson, in A Johnson…
Today’s One-Liner (#127)
We are only beginning to understand how filial piety operates, such that loss of patriotism, loss of faith, and loss of family each seem to encourage breakdown in the other parts of the triad. –Mary…
Today’s One-Liner (#126)
Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history…
More Recent Reading
Dear L., Here is a list of some books I’ve read in the past few years. Given my pretty rigid leftist mindset, Simone Weil’s maxim was often on my mind in reading the following……
Today’s One-Liner (#125)
If you’ve connected with someone in a moment of life, the essence of that person is right there with you even after their death. –Ram Dass, One-Liners: A Mini-Manuel for a Spiritual Life
In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
The death-dealing Chancery! The waste of Jarndyce and Jarndyce! The magnanimity of John Jarndyce! The plain loveliness of Esther Summerson! The delusion of Richard Carson! The dignity of George Rouncewell! The lovable hater of Lady…
Today’s One-Liner (#124)
It was not in vain that the ancient Fathers used to say: sit in your cell and it will teach you everything. –John B. Dunlap, Staretz Amvrosy, Model for Dostoevsky’s Staretz Zossima, 150
Our 65th Exchange on Israel and Palestine
A summer evening, 2008, we’re shmoozing at Coffee Cartel. All these years later, Nava, I remember you telling me at one point, totally matter-of-fact, no trace of irritation, “You know, you’re very one-sided.” I acknowledged,…
Today’s One-Liner (#123)
We must endure what is hard to endure and persevere in that which is hard to persevere in. –Tempo Roshi, quoted in Eido T. Shimano, Endless Vow: The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa