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.
Read MoreWe live in primitive times once again, with the proviso now that we always have and always will. Repression feels palpable.
Read MoreIs it too early to say that Karl Marx is coming through on his original prognosis?
Read MoreNovels 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.'
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreI'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
Read MoreGod 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.
Read MoreHe works on a 47" x 22" foldout card table made in China and purchased from Target for $42.00.
Read MoreSunday 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.
Read MoreThese should be the happiest days of our lives, knowing we are living in a time that will be written about later.
Read MoreThe 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.'
Read MoreThe 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,
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreStanding in line yesterday to gain admittance to the paradise that is Trader Joe's, I looked up and beheld The Salesforce Tower, its top floor glittering in the distance like a Mormon Temple.
Read MoreLooking at famous paintings, as I have been in my free time, it looks to me that every time a famous painter makes a brushstroke he or she is trying to become beautiful or famous or powerful or immortal.
Read MoreThe foghorns this morning: on my deathbed, the very last sounds I'd like to see. Yesterday walks through the park: everyone over the age of 10 is walking with some awareness of their own death, most of them for the first time.
Read MoreThe bookshelf, once relegated to a humdrum life dedicated to a strictly utilitarian purpose, is enjoying a major upsurge in popularity and status.
Read MoreWe live at the most interesting time in our cinematic history. This is a masterpiece, a Bergman movie in which the actors are presumed dead before the credits roll.
Read MoreOver the years, novelist Eric Goodman’s books have been described in many ways – readable, fascinating, raw, honest.
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