The book of my soul
Image source: Gitksan woman Shaman and Chief, Kispiox, British Columbia, 1909, by George Thornton Emmons Collection no….
Thomas Bernhard’s soliloquies
Looking around my study this morning for a prompt for a post, still with the idea…
Six asides about Vaclav Havel
I. Culture forms chaotically from spirit. Havel begins his essay, or talk, “Six asides about Culture”…
An awakening
I have over the last two months been going through the program of creative recovery set…
Berryman and the unpredictability of dream songs
There is a remarkable video somewhere on that shows a television interview with John Berryman, if…
Quotes to write by, 2.
From The Journals of Kierkegaard, 1834-54: And this is the simple truth: that to live is…
From Seamus Heaney
From Seamus Heaney “Here is the great paradox of poetry and of the imaginative arts in…
Gathering flowers for the mind
This morning I pulled down from my bookshelf a cardboard box that contains a hundred or…
Quotes to write by 1.
From Niccolo Machiavelli’s letter to the magnificent Lorenzo de Medici in presenting his The Prince: Nor…