Let us put awhile away/ All the cares of work-a-day,/For a golden time forget,/ Task and worry, toil and fret,/ Let us take a day to dream/ In the meadow by the stream. -L.M. Montgomery ("A Day Off")I don't know if it's being home or if it's the summer, but, whatever it is, it's led…
"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."-Jack Kerouac (On the Road)It's hard to believe that this time last…
When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville. -Flannery O'Connor My oh my, in the past few weeks, I feel like I've run at least three marathons! It has well and truly been crazy-busy around here. So busy, in fact, that my poor old blog has been neglected...and around the time of our one…
New York is nothing like Paris; it is nothing like London; and it is not Spokane multiplied by sixty, or Detroit multiplied by four. It is by all odds the loftiest of cities…Manhattan has been compelled to expand skyward because of the absence of any other direction in which to grow. This, more than any…
...Dr. Luce introduced the concept of "periphescence." The word itself means nothing; Luce made it up to avoid any etymological associations. The state of periphescence, however, is well known. It denotes the first fever of human pair bonding. It causes giddiness, elation, a tickling on the chest wall, the urge to climb a balcony on…
The sea, or Homer – all moves by love’s glow.Which should I hear? Now Homer is silent,and the Black Sea thundering its oratory, turbulent,and, surging, roars against my pillow.-Osip MandelshtamA few evenings ago, as I was sitting on my couch trying to get motivated to clean, the phone rang. It was the Greek, wanting to…
Dining with Dostoevsky 