You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me. Thanos, Avengers: Endgame I was going to write about talent today. About the absolute joy that it brings to be awash in the tremendous skill of others. I was going to regale you with the absolute phenomenal performance that …
Self-mastery is a long and exacting work. One can never consider it acquired once and for all. It presupposes renewed effort at all stages of life. Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 2342 No fancy title for this one. I intended to write this post last week, as it was one of the weekends bordering …
By simply not mentioning certain subjects, by lowering … an iron curtain between the masses and such facts or arguments as the local political bosses regard as undesirable, Totalitarian Propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have done by the most eloquent denunciations, the most compelling of logical rebuttals. – Aldous Huxley …
[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air… Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer. Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose The …
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery Everywhere I look these days, it seems the cool thing is now to be the critic. And, to be fair, I can understand why. There’s no shortage of media out there, what with the increasingly …
The bomb lives only as it is falling. Iain M Banks, Use of Weapons Greetings, Dwellers, and welcome to a long-overdue review of Iain M. Banks’ Culture “series” – the novels that, in part, led to the moniker I use for all you lovely people. Now, before I begin, I’d just like to say that …
Few things are more important than finding a home and working at it constantly to make it resonate with deep memories and fulfill deep longings. Thomas Moore Summer is coming. Yes, I know, the only thing I like more than making references my kids don’t understand is making plays on really dated references. The point …
Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. P.J. O’Rourke, All the Trouble in the World Another short non-post because, well, I thought it better to spend as much time with the missus as I could. So, I did. I promise, though, I’ll be back in action next week! …
Every second our collective heart breaks / All together every single head shakes / Shut your eyes but it won’t go away / Turn on / Turn off / The news Paramore, “This is Why”. The News. I was raised in a very opinionated family. Politics, religion, you name it and there was (and is) …
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. Gustav Mahler Well, I made it. Can’t say everything’s where I want it to be, but I’m not entering this next week even further behind. Plus, aside from trudging through the swamp that is work, there’s nothing that’s going to capture my nights …
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