"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance."
-Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919–8 February 1999)
Writings and photos on hope and resilience; love and relationships; life and death; anger and acceptance; and human behavior and beliefs
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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The Comfort of Our Loving Chosen Family
I have, by some measure of recklessness or sheer geographic fidgeting, inhabited eight U.S. cities. Birmingham, New Orleans, Fort Lauderdale...
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Here I sit - nursing a scotch, looking out at the pink and orange reflection of the sunset on the mountain—pondering my solitary act of civi...
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“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first t...
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The Parable, Redacted A long time ago, a grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing. A wretched thing, laboring away in the heat, a...
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