Books

May 6, 2010

The Limit of Anything is not a Natural Place

…together, the writing and the life, they make something of which I am unsure–but I am the student of that something, trying to be more sure. Continue reading

Books, Reading, The Examined Life, Thinkers, Writers, Writing

Hemingway, Montaigne, Sartre, Socrates, The Examined Life, the personal essay, Writing

May 4, 2010

…the american dog tick…

…the words blood meal make me uneasy. Continue reading

Books, Dogs, Nature, Reading, Writers

Admiral Nelson, Benalmadena, Costa del Sol, Deer ticks, Gibraltar, James Fenimore Cooper, Maine, Portland trails, Portugal, Spain, Straight of Gibraltar, ticks, Trafalgar

April 29, 2010

Thursday Grace Notes

“Life lived as art” — I love that. Continue reading

Books, Death, Philosophy, The Examined Life, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers, Wisdom

Alberti, Confucius, Isocrates, Jesus, Modernity, Muhammad, The Golden Rule, Wittgenstein

March 21, 2010

“She spent her whole life trying to understand…”

But what got me was the concept of devotion to an idea as a life-long pursuit. Continue reading

Books, Life, Literature, Photography, Thinkers, Writers, Writing

Cartier-Bresson, James Joyce, Joan Didion, Lee Friedlander, Montaigne, Robert Frank, street photography, Ulysses

January 10, 2010

Reading list: 2009

What’s on your shelf? Continue reading

Books, Literature, Reading

October 2, 2005

Carole has called this the most beautiful city she has ever seen and I comment that it is the only city Napoleon didn’t destroy, though I don’t know where I heard that and don’t know if it is even true. It is true that the German’s blew up the city’s bridges on the morning of… Continue reading

Books, Reading, Travel, Writers

Florence, George Orwell, Italy, Travel

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