When I was a child everything seemed so wondrously new and waiting to be discovered. Even if had already been discovered by someone else, what mattered was that I hadn’t yet experienced it. As the years passed and I delighted in each discovery, I knew one day the well would begin to lower each time I partook of it. The new and novel would still come but it would require much more effort and patience.…
There’s been a spate of recent prominent figures who have been recorded during an unguarded moment uttering something one would ever say in polite company. It’s almost always racist. When the storm over the recording gets to a level where it becomes uncomfortable for the recorded subject, a public statement will be released. It’s always a variation of the following as paraphrased: “I wasn’t raised that way. I didn’t grow up that way. I’m not…
I loved stories whether they be fiction or nonfiction especially when it relates to people and their personal development and growth. It’s a given that the most exciting stories chronicle the most extremes moments of life: births, deaths and experiences outside daily norms. The most satisfying stories for me always end with the protagonist(s) resolving whatever main issued they encountered and learning something about themselves that never occurred to them prior to the initiating event.…
Work has been uninspiring to me as of late. Hints of dissatisfaction of the general state of the world was creeping into my own professional life. I can only say that I felt un-tethered and adrift. I mired myself in gloom and uncertainty of the world. If I could’ve observed myself from a different vantage, I would’ve found the sight sad and unflattering. Then just a few days ago, I received an e-mail about an…
The ancient Greeks more or less defined and created the genre we all know as a “tragedy”. I sometime think that they appreciated the tragic more than any of the other aspects of life. Appreciate may not be apt. I think it’s more that they so want to understand like the rest of us. The way the ancient Greeks approach this aspect of life is more direct than most people nowadays can handle. To place…