The other morning my daughter, who is nine (and is biologically and by choice a night owl) was having her typical trouble getting up and ready for school. She insisted on clinging to me in the name of being cold, to which I said — “Get up! Get dressed! Dressing is a warming!”
She didn’t miss [...]
On capturing the full scope of an evanescent vapor. With an audio recorder.
A Poem for Pantagruel
Institutions crumble
under the big foot of man
But when he sits; rests, too long
he builds them tall by hand
An Ancient Bouquet
The last workbook of Greek and Roman Culture asked us to write an essay on some of the most influential ideologies that we had encountered while journeying through ancient Greece and into the Roman Empire. We were asked to “pluck a bouquet” of insights that we found applicable today.
I usually have a zero tolerance policy [...]