> Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it. May Sarton — Generation Above Me (@TheGenAboveMe) January 14, 2015 [https://twitter.com/TheGenAboveMe/status/555469936106414083] This ought to make me get serious about reading some May Sarton. Right after Whitman, Dickinson, and the essayists I want to spend…
A preview of Men Explain Things to Me. The adaptation at The New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/04/virginia-woolf-darkness-embracing-the-inexplicable.html?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=tumblr&mbid=social_tumblr] makes me want more of Solnit and Virginia Woolf.…
Brain Pickings [http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brainpickings/rss/~3/UFX8yjPiWGM/] points to an appreciation of Italo Calvino contatining this gem of a thought. > “Asserting oneself … doesn’t mean asserting a name and a person. It means asserting oneself with all that one has inside, and what he has…
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…
> 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…