My father told me when I was in college that one of the secrets of life is to do less. It’s only been recently that his words have made any sense. Doing less goes hand in hand with living intentionally, making choices about my time that are healthy rather than convenient.
“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.” -G.K. Chesterton When I was three, I liked to scatter my mom’s magazines on the floor, sit in the mess, and flip each glossy page. She figured out early that I was the literary type who [...]
It occurred to me somewhere in the middle of rewatching the final installment in the series that the Shrek movies are animated acts of deconstruction. They are striking examples of postmodernism in popular culture.
In Spoiled, Caitlin Macy gives a devastating diagnosis of the Upper East Side’s almost-rich.
An interview with Caroline Colom Vasquez, artisan and proprietor of Paloma’s Nest.
In great (lasting, challenging, beautiful, truthful, skillful) art – great film, great painting, great quilting, great photography – prurience has little place. However, nudity for a great filmmaker relates to film’s sense of time: it focuses on the impermanence of the body, while at the same time reveling in the beauty of the same body, as in each of these films.
Mike Rose expresses an ethic of care, directly wanting the good of “the other,” and as a model of this ethic, Rose is an exemplar for more than just teachers. Anyone who seeks to understand another person’s needs could use Rose as a model, particularly in their day-to-day vocation.
In Snark, David Denby sees a strain of nasty verbal abuse spreading through the national conversation.
Once we desire to stay at home more often, we’ll eventually realize how painful it’s been to be cut off from our roots. We’ll want to be reconnected, or feel the connection for the first time – to be firmly planted as aware beings, conscious of those living beside us, those within our walls, the crops outside our doors, and the nature beyond them.
The reports of journalism’s death are greatly exaggerated – but the landscape is changing.