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'What man needs is silence & warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.' ~Simone Weil

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Jan 16, 2017

Krista Tippett’s conversation with Anil Dash is a classic—one of my On Being all-time favorites.

Jan 16, 2017

The indignity of Minnesota winter: when you drop a glove & then, upon stopping to pick it up, kick it full of snow.

Jan 11, 2017

Auden on Attention

Choice of attention—to pay attention to this and ignore that—is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

~ Qtd. in Winnifred …

Jan 11, 2017

Geoffrey Hill on Making and Self-Making

The world is full of noise, the noise of opinion. Are you going to be able to master some small aspect of it, and use it in the making of your own voice? Or is it stronger than you are? Do I mean stronger or just louder? These particular …

Jan 11, 2017

Commiseration & consolation for Minneapolis in winter.