Mark Chmiel: Hey Linz lindsay sihilling: hey mfc Mark Chmiel: Here’s the exercise.Choose a person you are close to for this exercise in which one person gives and the other receives. Person A says to…
Walking on water wasn’t built in a day. –Jack Kerouac, quoted in Bill Morgan, I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg
Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, who brings the day; and you give light through him. –Saint Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun, translated by Bill…
“And I shall also tell you, dear mother, that each of us is guilty in everything before everyone, and I most of all.” –Markel, in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Recently my friend Lindsay Wolff inquired if I was doing a writing class this fall. Giving it some thought, I decided to offer the following just because I thought it could be (1) a fun …
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“People ignore reality in favor of their bright ideas.” –Hannah Arendt to Karl Jaspers, 1965, quoted in Susie Linfield, The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky
Through recent engaging conversation with Andrew Ivers at the Courtesy Diner, I became re-interested in Joan Didion, whose book The Year of Magical Thinking I read when it came out. Andrew has agreed to share…
Lovers of God do not belong to any caste. –Sri Ramakrishna, in M., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Be influenced by as many great artists as you can, but have the decency either to acknowledge the debt outright, or to try to conceal it. –Ezra Pound, Make It New
A healthy ego is transformed into a soul only via the burden of another who must impinge on the ego, causing the ego to shrink, as it were. –Ira F. Stone, A Responsible Life: The…