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Apr.15.2013
Is there merit in unstructured time … what do you think? Is it only for children, is it a luxury, a waste, or an opportunity to shift perspectives, discover your passion, break the mould and loosen up your ideas of reality? I don’t see unstructured time being much encouraged, or its lovely...
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Dec.17.2012
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age by Kenzaburo Oe is an autobiographical novel that reads like a memoir binding together the two most important facets of the narrator’s life:
--The challenging burden of raising a mentally handicapped son (called Eyeore);
--The persistent sense that what occurs...
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Jun.28.2012
For the three years I lived in San Francisco’s notorious Tenderloin district, my local bar was The Edinburgh Castle pub, a “Scottish” pub owned by a Korean family and managed by Glaswegian writer, Alan Black. The night I learned that Manchester United legend George Best had celebrated his 21st...
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Dec.17.2011
After a late start, I decided to venture out into the wilds of pre-Christmas traffic. Admittedly, doing just about anything, including washing the kitchen floor, holds more allure for me at this time of the year than shopping, but as a fortune cookie once wisely proclaimed, "You gotta do what...
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Dec.10.2011
“That’s what inspires me — people still at work, and dreaming.”
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Jul.16.2011
The Menlo Park Presbyterian Church recently ran a series on “Christian Atheists,” Christians whose faith is guarded. A sermon by Nancy Ortberg seemed strong when I first heard it and continues to resonate so well that I’m attaching it. She takes a while to get to the meat of the sermon, but when...
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Jun.21.2011
There’s a quote that I read yesterday and it keeps tapping on my shoulder. I read Robert Fulghum’s Words I Wish I Wrote: A Collection of Writing that Inspired My Ideas some years ago. I have come back to it because I enjoyed the wisdom that he collected in this slim volume.
The man who never...
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Jun.18.2011
Sublime Literature
By: Jeferson Beluso
Sublime arts and literature flourished during the Romantic era ( second half of the 18th century). The art’s theme...
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Nov.28.2010
Infant Joy by William Blake
"I have no name;I am but two days old."What shall I call thee?"I happy am,Joy is my name."Sweet joy befall thee!Pretty joy!Sweet joy, but two days old.Sweet Joy I call thee:Thou dost smile,I sing the while;Sweet joy befall thee!
Infant Sorrow by...
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Jul.27.2010
"Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black
where I read white." - William Blake
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