What I’m Reading Right Now…
I’m concurrently reading three different books right now: 1. Encore by May Sarton, a journal she kept in her 80s (softbound) 2. Of City and Stars / The Sands of Mars by Arthur C. Clark –...
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Journal Entry 6/5/2014 – An Afternoon walk on WWU Campus
This afternoon, K, Fran, & I drove to Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA to listen to Nick Wees play his junior trumpet recital. It was a beautiful day, about 75F and sunny. After dropping...
Big fish starves many little fish or Amazon disrupts the publishing industry.
I work for the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. An organization that promotes the value of quality writing in many forms and genres. There was an interesting discussion in this weeks staff meeting about online bookstores, ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Dome Life
From The Poetry Foundation Kubla Khan By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless...
Draft – Late night musing on thinking responsibly.
Because we can think and verbalize a specific idea, and map it to a set of values, does not make that idea fit for application in any broader sense. The idea must contribute or at least...
Walt Whitman quote via Drew Kampion in honor of Earth Day
“ Great is the Earth, and the way it became what it is; Do you imagine it has stopt at this? the increase abandon’d? Understand then that it goes as far onward from this,...