Archive for the ‘Humanity’ Category

In With the Old

The birth of the 21st century luddite.

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The Story That Needs to Be Told

Good stories scratch the itch that lies just below the surface of things, churning up just enough dust to make others curious.

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The Long View

A culture must be either shapely and saving or shapeless and destructive.

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The True Source of Inspiration

Where does an artist’s inspiration come from?

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West Indian Gold

On needing to belong – to a community, and to a family.

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WebMD for the Soul

WebMD for the Soul says I have acedia. Kathleen Norris concurs.

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A Place for Stories: The Annapolis Bookstore

Little did I know that I had stumbled into a rabbit hole that day– a world complete with its own bookstore mouse, traveling pussycat, and rumors of a secret passageway.

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You’re Probably Not An Outlier

If you weren’t born in the 1830s, you probably won’t become one of the wealthiest people in history.

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The Art of Repetition

Much of pop culture’s art is simply on our level, pointing us to nowhere but our own surroundings and thus to nothing with perspective.

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Cruel and Usual

Those lovable lefties have taken up the faithful arms of that pesky Eighth Amendment once more in order to propel the next Great Debate: life imprisonment for minors.

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