“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson In New York, you walk across the sameContinue reading “Hiatus”
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Goodbye, April
“Just as a flower does not choose its color, we are not responsible for what we have come to be. Only once you realize this do you become free.” Thursday, April 4th, 2013. April has arrived, the month of picnics, the emergence of sunglasses, the stirrings of inner life after the inertia of cold months.Continue reading “Goodbye, April”
Doomsday Reflections
“The sun is setting on a century, and we’re armed to the teeth. We are all working together now to make our lives mercifully brief…” They say the world will end this week. With the rush of winter and the holiday season suddenly having stumbled so quickly in our midst, it has hardly felt likeContinue reading “Doomsday Reflections”
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