BurningbirdOne more post in my little orgy of posting tonight, and then off to bed. Sharon finished a class in Children’s Literature, and reading her words triggered fond memories of my own childhood reading. Question: What was your favorite reading when you were a kid? And if you say Harry Potter, then you’re too young to be […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I made a mistake last Friday — I thought to introduce conflicting viewpoints to demonstrate that one can, intellectually, appreciate more than one viewpoint on an issue. This was a mistake because there are some issues that one cannot discuss from the detached, bloodless core that exists at the root […]
I am becoming such a fan of Happy Tutor. In particular, today’s (and yesterday’s) posting on Writing of Injustice grabbed my attention and my thoughts. It takes a rare talent to put forth such thoughtful prose wrapped, but not obscured, in a cloak of humor.
No matter how strongly you feel on a subject, at a certain point you either mellow out, or burn out. Moth to a flame. We circle our inner passions, beating at the fire with our wings, driving in air to make the flames leap higher. At some point, if we continue this feeding of the […]
I wrote this on the 6th of March. Not sure why I didn’t post it then. One of those things. However, I looked at it again today and decided that today was a good day to post it. Leaving the parking garage for my lunch appointment on Tuesday, I found the exit blocked, yet again, […]