Category: Arts
Sunday Poem: Some Never Awaken
You live like this, sheltered, in adelicate world, and you believeyou are living. Then you…
Tears, Cry, Don’t Cry –are Trumpets of Silence
Quotes on Tears, Crying We need never be ashamed of our tears. –Charles Dickens, Great…
Saturday Poem: Picasso Painting Guernica
She clawed through the rubble of her worldhead covered a scrupulous maid searching for gemsa…
Friday Poem: The Return
When I returned to earth after forty thousand yearsthere were no more graves, no more…
Thursday Poem: The New Battery Should Come Tomorrow
Got up this morning thinking about going to see my daughter.Which led to thinking about…
Wednesday Poem: Identity Card -by Mahmoud Darwish
Write down!I am an ArabAnd my identity card number is fifty thousandI have eight childrenAnd…
Tuesday Poem: Going to Africa
“I am not the prodigal son,” I saidto my mother who had cometo take me…
Lament for the Declining Art of Editing
Damon Linker at Notes From the Middleground: Journalists have a name for an article written…
Daniel Dennett, a Deep Thinker About What it is to Be Human. R.I.P.
The world has sadly just lost one of its most provocative and inspirational thinkers and…
Monday Poem: Terra Incognita by D.H. Lawrence
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed ofvast ranges of experience, like the humming…
Black and White Photography Isn’t Old School For Same Old Stories
B&W photography goes back to the fundamentals of what photography has always been. Take color…
Lord Byron Was Hard to Pin Down. That’s What Made Him Great.
Benjamin Markovits at the New York Times: This week is the 200th anniversary of Lord…