Montaigne
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…the meaning of doing a thing seriously…
The influences of history, when we recognize and manifest them, cease to be past influences. They become present. Continue reading
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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
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“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.” ~Albert Schweitzer
There is an extended scene towards the end of 25th Hour, the 2002 Spike Lee movie that captures my imagination. The Ed Norton character is reporting to prison in upstate New York, being driven there by his father, played by Brian Cox. In the scene, his father says, “Just say the word, say the word Continue reading
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“What I really wanted was every kind of life…”
…yearn for the difficult. The common is just that, common. Continue reading
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“What I am, I am by myself.”
Do you ever ask yourself what is the best we have to offer? The “we” here is the species, homo sapiens. I will pass completely on the who or what to whom we offer (the verb implying such: O.E., ofrian, from L. offerre “to present, bestow, bring before”). Not bringing this before anybody/-thing but myself, Continue reading
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“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
...the house I live in... 