Half the Truth, the poem Grrison Keillor read on The Writer's Almanac [http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2014/02/19] yesterday, contains this lines > We make love without rushing and find ourselves afterward with someone we know well. Time to be what we are getting…
This is from Radiolab [http://www.radiolab.org/story/o-wind-blowing/] and not from the Scott Expedition, who kept me enthralled with their blog posts for more than 100 days, but it manages to show what Antarctica can really be like in just about a minute. I suppose I should post…
Ben and Tarka arrived home in the UK today and gave a press conference. Here's just one indication of the stress of the journey. > Ben 'The blog was a lifeline in a way,the lack of mental stimulus was incredibly difficult.The mental challenge far outweighed…
This seems full of meaning in a week when I received two volumes on aging (The Oxford Book on Aging and Fierce with Reality) and I can't wait the read the essay about being 90 that Roger Angell published in The New Yorker. Can't wait to…
Maybe I should have titled it "Shock of Recognition." I found this image from 2008 yesterday, and it startled me because I had mostly forgotten it. I had started a course of serial casting—a new cast every week with my arm extended to a more open position—…
> Methinks there is equal need of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance, what we will call Beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage…
My personal challenge of reading more, even two books at once, continues. I've started Leaves of Grass, and I'm continuing Daniel Deronda. But to make the mix a little more intense I'll be starting the MOOC Every Atom [http://courses.writinguniversity.org/course/every-atom]…
> Music brings memories back to the brain injured http://t.co/G0gheknYbG — BrainSong (@BrainSongMJF) February 14, 2014 [https://twitter.com/BrainSongMJF/statuses/434161321810989056] This is not the first time I've noted the benefits of music (and might explain why I've usually got some music playing…