“I learn by going where I have to go.” -Theodore Roethke, “The Waking”
Maggie Jackson, in her book Distraction wrote, “Amid the glittering promise of our new technologies and the wondrous potential of our scientific gains, we are nurturing a culture of social diffusion, intellectual fragmentation, sensory detachment.
“There’s more than one way to bury a man.” -Thomas Sayers Ellis, “Fatal April”
If it isn’t apparent by now that I’m convinced of the essential role of the imagination in our lives, then we have a serious failure of communication. Today’s blog post describes the kind of healthy
“Deprive children of stories and you leave them unscripted, anxious stutterers in their actions as in their words.” -Alasdair MacIntyre A peer of mine, bemoaning the inept vacuum we were unfortunate enough to share, once
“Who am I to have everything?” -Quan Barry, “the oboe in Handel’s largo
We have built a worldwide metropolis of glitz and clamor and so we are complicit in her faults. Like Dr. Frankenstein, we have built a monster and our monster has stolen both silence and quiet
“Our steps have been shaped by the cages that kept us.” -Etheridge Knight, “The Bones of My Father”
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