If Not a Room, Perhaps a Shed

For Lala Above all, you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness and what…

Those Blasts of a Trumpet

I’ve recently finished reading Robert Richardson’s engrossing biography, Emerson: The Mind on Fire. The author regularly highlights the exuberant reading Emerson did throughout his life. Robertson not only identifies authors and titles of what Emerson…

Worth Reading

Dear Irina, Here are some books that may speak to a few of your questions, interests,  and enthusiasms.  I’ll send more later on if you want…. Mark   Daniel Berrigan, Isaiah: Spirit of Courage, Gift…