> “Be sick and tired of yesterday’s self”—Basho, as rendered by Jeff Robbins on basho4humanity. — Pico Iyer (@PicoIyer) January 30, 2019 [https://twitter.com/PicoIyer/status/1090630030470766592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Nothing I saw when I read Narrow Road to the Interior struck me with the immediacy of…
> @cbcradioq [https://twitter.com/cbcradioq] My #culturalresolution [https://twitter.com/hashtag/culturalresolution?src=hash] is to handwrite & mail a letter a week!📝📬💌 #loveletters [https://twitter.com/hashtag/loveletters?src=hash] #YouveGotMail [https://twitter.com/hashtag/YouveGotMail?src=hash] — Audie Fox (@AudieCantFail) January 7, 2016 [https://twitter.com/AudieCantFail/…
Just got started on Ted Merwin's Pastrami on Rye, and already I've run across this passage on the importance of delicatessens— > It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the delicatessen—what the food writer Joan Nathan calls "the Jewish eating experience in America.…
The headline at The New Yorker—Obama, Cruz, and Catiline [http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/obama-cruz-catiline]—really got me. I labored over the Catiline orations in high school, and I've actually got a copy of De Senectute next to my desk to get to soon, but I…
> “I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.” > —Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises I wonder how this [http://poetsandwriters.tumblr.com/post/103213680476/i-cant-stand-it-to-think-my-life-is-going-so-fast] struck me the first time I read it. Can't…
I spotted two suggestions for end-of-year reflection today. In The New York Times, Ross Douthat's op-ed column, Confessions of a Columnist [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/opinion/sunday/douthat-confessions-of-a-columnist.html?smid=pl-share] , was an acknowledgement of his "three biggest analytic errors" of the year.…