BurningbirdIf we look hard enough, we can find the lowest common denominator among us, and we can beat down the peaks and fill in the valleys and take comfort in the sameness among us. And one spark of beauty, one ray of true art, can multiply, like the loaves and the fishes, to feed the […]
Archived with comments at the Wayback Machine Dan Gillmor wrote about the following in today’s eJournal: Obviously we need to find out what went wrong, if we can, before sending the shuttles back up. But I fear this accident (assuming that’s what it is, as is almost surely the case) will instead be a justification for […]
Archived with comments at the Wayback Machine I received a news alert from CNN, only to hear that communication with the Shuttle Columbia has been lost. There’s no other official news other than this, but it sounds like it did explode on entry. It breaks my heart because if there’s one thing this country does well, it is our […]
I had email auto responding on and off this week and just found out today that it was not forwarding emails on to me. I’m not sure what happened to the email, but it didn’t get through to me. If you’ve sent an email, especially in the last week, and have been expecting a response, […]
Farrago has been introducing us to her home in a series of photographic essays from out and about in Sea Point, South Africa. If you’ve never had a chance to see Farrago’s photographs, you need to take some time, now, and look around; especially if you’re in the northern hemisphere and facing snow, sleet, and frozen rain like […]