Wherever We Are Useful
Katharina Mommsen, Goethe’s Art of Living Trafford, 2003 Translators: John Crosetto, John Whaley, Renee M. Schell A teacher who can awaken a sense of a single good deed or a single good poem accomplishes more…
Tag: Harold Bloom
Today’s Yiddish Proverb
Sleep faster, we need the pillows. –I learned of this from Harold Bloom.
Yeshua
A couple friends and I are reading books on Jesus this year. Our first is Thich Nhat Hanh’s Living Buddha, Living Christ. We may also read the Jewish Gnostic/literary scholar Harold Bloom, who has this…
Give, Give, and Give Some More
Give away career advice Give dropping-out-of-grad-school encouragement Give reminders of the lojong slogans (“Don’t ponder others”) Give away Harold Bloom’s Western Canon reading list Give a 9 by 12 b/w photo by M. Puleo Give…
Passing
I get a daily Google Alert For Harold Bloom One of my favorite writers I read this morning of a brilliant, gifted, recent Yale graduate Named Marina Keegan Who died Saturday in a car wreck…