The Writer's Almanac [http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2014/03/29] reports that today is the anniversary of the last entry in Robert Falcon Scott's diary. Writer's Almanac also passes on Scott's record of his disappointment at learning that Roald…
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> The core of all my writing was probably the five free years I had there on the farm. […] The only thing we had was time and seclusion. I couldn’t have figured on it in advance. I hadn’t that kind of foresight. But it turned out right as…
In his TED talk yesterday [http://blog.ted.com/2014/03/20/the-hardest-105-days-of-my-life-ben-saunders-at-ted2014/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TEDBlog+%28TEDBlog%29] , Ben Saunders summed up his trip to the South Pole this way. > “This is a story of giving everything we had…
At The New Yorker, Casey Cep articulates the case against unplugging [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/03/the-pointlessness-of-unplugging.html] , managing to bring the Pope, Thoreau, and other critics into one piece. She pretty much spells out the uncertainty I feel. > Unplugging from devices doesn’t stop…
At The New York Times,Haider Javed Warraich nails it with his story of a wedding conducted in an intensive care unit [http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/a-wedding-in-intensive-care/?_php=true&_type=blogs&ref=todayspaper&_r=0] . The key passage? > In today’s outcome-driven,…
> "Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all." Sir Ernest Shackleton. — Team ITACE (@ITACE2014) March 17, 2014 [https://twitter.com/ITACE2014/statuses/445660692557729792] Team ITACE, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Centenary Expedition, has 228 days until its polar expedition. They will 'attempt the crossing in the proposed footsteps…
> To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important…