From a Vanity Fair report of Prince Harry's funraiser to the south pole [http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/01/prince-harry-champagne-prosthetic-leg?mbid=social_twitter] > (The endeavor had been aimed at raising awareness for wounded and injured soldiers, several of whom joined on the weeks-long trip.) “. . . This…
It's been hard for me to follow the Scott Expedition without recalling that Felicity Aston became the first woman to ski across Antarctica alone [http://www.kasperskyonetransantarcticexpedition.com] two years ago. Just found something I wrote at the time. > Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole 100 years…
Just because I've added a few posts about silence lately, here's something I wrote on another blog in 2010— At Twitter, Michelle James points the way to Emerson RT @swichman: "Real action is in silent moments." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Tue Jul 06 02:27:…
but right on time with its thought, this poem shared at The Writer’s Almanac [http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2014/01/17] yesterday perectly expresses a thought I've often considered—New Year's celebrates the passage of time. > Let other mornings honor the…
I found a recent entry celebrating silence [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/isolation-of-another-sort/] yesterday, and it reminded me of this. > " Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet." Ralph Waldo Emerson — Frederic Brussat (@FredericBrussat) January 14, 2014 [https://twitter.com/FredericBrussat/statuses/423061672941473792]…
At the Daily Beast [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/14/growing-up-with-george-eliot-rebecca-mead-s-my-life-in-middlemarch.html] , Lucy Scholes writes about Middlemarch and Rebecca Mead's forthcoming book about it and its importance to her. > Virginia Woolf once described Middlemarch as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people,…
A doctor, Rafael Campo [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2014/01/doctorpoet-rafael-campo-uses-the-stethoscope-to-explore-rhythms-of-poetry.html] , and three of his students [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2014/01/three-medical-students-on-why-poetry-nurtures-a-part-of-the-soul.html] discuss the importance of poetry to their work. I'm taken by the doctor's words >…
> “a writer … is someone who pays attention to the world.” A pretty useful definition from Susan Sontag via BrainPickings [http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/01/07/how-to-live-montaigne/]…