- Reflexive Reflection I have ascertained that when I am not actively engaging in reflection, I get angsty. The angst grows in proportion to the time I do not afford myself to reflect. A real creeper. It appears in the depth of tension in my back muscles. Notably, I’ve found the same to be true when it has been […]
- Eating Plants Make Thee Strong 101; Or, I Made Myself a Syllabus for the Month I really don’t enjoy things unless I’m researching them as I go. So I made myself a syllabus for this 31-day Raw Foods push. Some of these books I’ve been wanting to read for awhile – especially the Michael Pollan best-sellers. I’m also a newbie marathoner (2 finishes in the 5.5 hr range), so many […]
- Note to Self #001: Read: Italian for the Music / English for the Sense “I have in my translations tried to bring over the qualities of Guido’s rhythm, not line for line, but to embody in the whole of my English some trace of that power which implies the man. The science of the music of words and the knowledge of their magical powers has fallen away…That there might […]
- Resting the Feetsies Post-Marathon #1; What I Learned About “The Wall” The truth is, running that marathon was one of the most enjoyable things I’ve ever done. It was, at least, until Mile 21. Prior to Mile 21, I was feeling so groovy–hopped up on endorphinnies, no doubt–that I very nearly texted my wonderful friends who would be waiting at Mile 23 the following: I’m going […]
- Finding Solitude in the City; or, John Keats’ first published Piece O Solitude (1816) O SOLITUDE! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings; – climb with me the steep, Nature’s Observatory – whence the dell, Its flowery slopes – its rivers crystal swell, May seem a span: let me thy vigils keep ‘Mongst boughs pavilioned; where […]
- Dear 2012,You Were Good, but in 2013, My Sabbath must be Real. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work (Exodus 20:8). Is it possible for a human being to do all his work in six days? Does not our work always remain incomplete? What the verse means to convey is: Rest on the Sabbath as if all your work were done. Another interpretation: Rest […]
- Três coisas; three things. Notes to Self. 1. Restart the call for impromptu poetry, as you once did. Maybe some haikus? Haikus are fun. Haikus are vastly underappreciated (at least in the West.) Does anyone write poetry for sport anymore? 2. Create an epic book queue list, since you are always in the middle of four score and seven […]
- A Rough Mind-Map of Ezra Pound Sometimes it helps to draw out the context around things. This is how I made sense of Ezra Pound and his place in modernist poetry as I was thumbing through his Translations on Christmas Eve. I always knew he’d helped propel T.S. Eliot into stardom, but I actually didn’t realize how close he was with […]
- 2013, I see you. I look forward to returning to these goals and crossing them off with a thick blue magical pen. Made with Paper app for the iPad. (Buy the $6.99 expansion pack, trust me.)
- I Want to Run Fast Once upon a time, I hated running. I thought people who said they enjoyed running were slightly deranged and masochistic. At one point in my twenties, I started to approach running as more of a coping mechanism. Ahh, the early twenties, when everything felt impossible and wonderful and horrible, simultaneously. (I think Taylor Swift calls […]
- Frederick Buechner on Vocation “It comes from the Latin vocare, to call, and means the work a man is called to by God. There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work, and the problem is to find out which is the voice of God rather than of Society, say, or the Superego, […]
- [Holga] I Did Not Take; Fly now, Butterfly, Fly Crawling little creatures only need a few simple ingredients for transformation. [ Holga / chalk by Laura Burlton ]