From what may be my favorite piece of writing from DFW: The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. – David Foster […]
We are bludgeoned with snapshots of cats playing polo. We are pinioned with pics of people we hardly know. We hardly have time for great because we are so besieged (and besotted) by the deluge of daily dreck. There is greatness in the world. Greatness and originality. In art and […]
I still don’t know whether or not to like an interesting article on a fascinating topic, my intended amour for the sentiment rather than the event. I’m not certain how my sarcasm is being met, nor if my lack of comment on the passing of a celebrity signals contempt for […]
A 30s-ish woman in a pink hoodie and blue jeans sits, legs crossed, in a cafe chair. Her lid-less coffee rests atop a typical round coffee table that splits the space between her and the empty cafe chair opposite her. She smiles and carries on a conversion complete with reciprocal […]
A normal enough man walks slowly into the coffee shop with a green bath towel draped over his left shoulder. A soaked Big Ben #7 t-shirt drapes his thin frame as he carries his worn baseball cap in his hand and maintains a pace unaligned with steady rain outside. His […]