From Resolution to Reality: Part II
Last week, I wrote about how “focus is the currency of resolve.” Without focus, we cannot maintain resolve. In a sense, focus and resolve are similar. When we resolve we …
From Resolution to Reality: Part 1
A few months ago, I watched a video from my children’s elementary school: The kid’s principal, Mr. Mac, was announcing the week’s “blue ticket” winners. A student earns a blue …
James Baldwin: “Rejoice in the fact of death”
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, …
One Good Thing #4: Gatsby’s SCHEDULE
Yesterday, three days into my project, I failed to write “One Good Thing.” I was feeling ill, a supremely eerie sensation at this time, and though I wasn’t experiencing ominous …
“There seems no reason except mere habit why…we should not go barefoot”
As to the feet, which have been condemned to their leathern coffins so long that we are almost ashamed to look at them, there is still surely a resurrection …
Nietzsche on Believing in Oneself
I came across the following quote in Sue Prideaux’s wonderful new Nietzsche biography, I am Dynamite! It’s a selection from Nietzsche’s Daybreak, which Prideaux presents as the beginning of his …
Knausgård: “The easy life is nothing to aspire to.”
Two companionable quotes from Karl Ove Knausgård’s excellent book, Spring, which I’ve read three times this summer–twice in succession, and one more time a month later. I’m only now emerging from …