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…
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/…
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…
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-…
> “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/]…