reading people

"Nothing true about God can be said from a posture of defense."

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:56:01 -0400

“Nothing true about God can be said from a posture of defense.”

- Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. There shallow..."

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:34:31 -0500

“A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.”

- Alexander Pope “Essay on Criticism”

"The dust is settling on the ‘bipartisan’ stimulus bill and one thing is clear: It is anti-religious."

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:01:19 -0500

““The dust is settling on the ‘bipartisan’ stimulus bill and one thing is clear: It is anti-religious.””

- Huckabee: Stimulus is ‘anti-religious’ - Andy Barr - Politico.com

"…she had no real skills. Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was..."

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:33:47 -0500

“…she had no real skills. Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty percent of the useful work of the world.”

- Toni Morrison, “Song of Solomon”

"…the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be..."

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:11:38 -0500

“…the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars …”

- Jack Kerouac, “On the Road”

Senior portraits in Millenium Park (my brother)

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:19:25 -0500

Senior portraits in Millenium Park (my brother)

"The painter and the sculptor are the Catholics of art, the writer is the Protestant. The former have..."

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:39:42 -0500

“The painter and the sculptor are the Catholics of art, the writer is the Protestant. The former have the sacramentals, the concrete intermediaries between themselves and creation — the paint, the brushes, the fruit, the bowl, the table, the model, the mountain, the handling and muscling of clay. The writer is the Protestant. He works alone in a room as bare as a Quaker meeting house with nothing between him and his art but a Scripto pencil, like God’s finger touching Adam. It is harder on the nerves.”

- Walker Percy, “Lost in the Cosmos”

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Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:54:05 -0500

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Song for a Young Queen by Chris Thile

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:51:28 -0500

Song for a Young Queen by Chris Thile

The Big Picture - Boston.com

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:34:05 -0500

The Big Picture - Boston.com

"The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of..."

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:31:19 -0500

“The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn’t have to.”

- Walker Percy, “Lost in the Cosmos”

A reading people will always be a knowing people. A people who...

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:28:20 -0500

A reading people will always be a knowing people. A people who talk much will know little.

-John Wesley