Today’s One-Liner (#73)
If you can’t get out of it, get into it. –Patricia Ryan Madson, Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up, 11.
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Keenness and Intensity
On Monday 4 November, Katrina shared the following with our class, Saints, Mystics, and the Neighbor Next Door… Whenever I groan within myself and think how hard it is to keep writing about love in…
Genres
[Alexander Kluge’s two books] are sobering inventories of a catastrophe, cool, dry and therefore more gripping. A card index of all imaginable inhumanities. Kluge’s books consist of excerpts from diaries, telegrams, official reports, sermons of…
Share the Wealth with Alina Kohout: How Mother Teresa Inspired Me
Alina is studying with me at Maryville University in an Honors World Religion course. She has already made a significant impact in our class. She shared with me the following: “One day, I would love…
Today’s One-Liner (#72)
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
Today’s One-Liner (#71)
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…
Today’s One-Liner (#70)
“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
Writing Bliss Class: Fall 2024-Winter 2025
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 …
Manhattan, 1992
Photo by Mev
Today’s One-Liner (#69)
“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