Rhythm can be a more subtle form of poetic organization than rhyme. This week’s entry in the 52 Makeup challenge plays with iambic pentameter. details “Every poem could be titled either ‘Heaven, a Detail’ or ‘Hell, a Detail.’ — Stevie Smith chocolate chip bread pudding and a beer the man behind the counter knows my name it’s warm and bright and just enough people a cheerful crowd against the winter night I could sit here and write unceasingly and lose... Read more
But we all have messed-up stuff going on in our lives, even the great spiritual teachers. Read more
Photography sent my father to Vietnam. He was the photographer for his high school newspaper. He was something of an aimless kid, but this was something that interested him. When the Air Force recruiters came to his school his senior year, in late 1962 or early 1963, they told him, "Hey, you're interested in photography? Well young man, we do a lot of reconnaissance photography. Sign up and we'll give you a whole bunch of training that will set you up for a civilian career later." Read more
All that stood in their way was the solitary figure of Norton. A sane man would not have been there in the first place. Read more
So he does three things: he works to improve himself. He comes to love the people around him. And he uses the skills he learns to help make life better for the those other people, he becomes their guardian and protector and helper. Read more
"Notes on Nationalism" is not just relevant to the resurgence of traditional nationalism we are experiencing, it shows how that phenomenon we now call "identity politics" rests on the same basis. Read more
While I'm far from "perfect", whatever I do is as natural as starshine or a thunderstorm. The crow does not compare it's caw to the songs of other birds. Read more
The Trump administration's recent acts, leaving refugees and immigrants stranded, are a national disgrace -- literally, a "dis-grace", a failure to abide by the ethical grace of hospitality. Read more
That's part of Tiny Train World: every story is subject to change, with past versions being stuffed down the Memory Hole at the click of a mouse. Read more
Captain America explicitly takes a stand for free speech over Nazi punching, saying "Don't you realize that in your attack, you've attacked your own freedom as well?" Read more
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