At a certain age I woke up and realized that I was a journalist covering a story I'd never get to the bottom of.
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The expendability of human life seems to be in vogue now, having replaced man's inhumanity to man as the chief motif of serious social discussion and literary practice..
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I am surprised F___loves rockets. He's the last person on earth I would have guessed to unabashedly admire space launches, as he's a fierce critic of the USA and deplores almost every one of its institutions.
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13% of the total population is purple.
Of this 13%, 11% are literate, that is, able to read.
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Citizenship is a kind of real estate, the space you and I occupy for which we are responsible and through which we express and share our private and public lives.
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At 11 am yesterday my neighbor Ethan Tong, 16, stepped out onto his back porch and played Mendelsohnn, a violin concerto.
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One thing to be gleaned from the distant past is that it's neither better or worse than one thought it was at the time; it's a gnomic progression as witnessed by ancestors who guide us thoughtfully through piles of truths, half-truths, and lies.
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We live in primitive times once again, with the proviso now that we always have and always will. Repression feels palpable.
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Is it too early to say that Karl Marx is coming through on his original prognosis?
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Novels are no longer allowed to begin with the words, 'once upon a time' but are now to begin with the words, 'everything happened so long ago.'
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The differences between the literal and the figurative do matter. There was a reason Cezanne painted the same mountain over and over, beside his ability to see it from the front door of his home.
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I'm having a strange new love affair with time; time doesn't require as much from me as it once did. Very strange this feeling, not only the reduction of expectation as advised by the Buddha
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God doesn't really protect drunks; that's a happy myth, a leftover fairy tale from a time when the bars stayed open until 2 am.
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He works on a 47" x 22" foldout card table made in China and purchased from Target for $42.00.
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Sunday is a good day to make a picture of Saturday, which was yesterday.
Today, everyone's gone to the park to bounce soccer balls off their knees and heads, the girls just as good at it as the boys, and drink Gatorade and cans of something called White Claw.
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These should be the happiest days of our lives, knowing we are living in a time that will be written about later.
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The great political divide is now between people who should apologize and people who should be apologized to, though our marketers, spokespeople for the system, like to say 'we're all in this together.'
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The temptation is to keep thinking about matters to which we haven't yet given a great deal of thought, and then to up the ante by having too many thoughts, or by thinking the thoughts others are thinking,
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The first day of May says hello in an echo chamber of sunshine, blossoming cherry trees, and baby ducklings that shelter-in-place beneath their mothers' soft wings.
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