“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.” ― Alan Garner, The Owl Service A great cry of joy arose across the land, Pitchforks were raised by town… Read More ›
Month: September 2022
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES
Why are people so fucked up?” I asked “Maybe you do need college, Poiter,” Everett said. “You want to know why people are so fucked up? Son, that’s about the only question I can answer with even a small measure… Read More ›
I KNOW THE ANSWER, DO YOU?
“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.” ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses It’s been a week, both on a personal level, and in regard to education policy in… Read More ›
SHINY OBJECTS GALORE
F“The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history — the English, the French and the Russian — all took place in societies where the rate of literacy was… Read More ›
A DAY OF CELEBRATION
“Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding.” ― Naval Ravikant This morning, out in Knoxville, the nation’s First Lady Jill Biden kicked… Read More ›
AND TO THINK I THOUGHT I HAD NOTHING TO SAY
“When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.” ― Queen Elizabeth II This week, two notable events transpired that are worthy of… Read More ›
SPLITTING THE EARS OF THE GROUNDLINGS
“Are people so unhappy when they love?” “Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.” ― Gaston Leroux, Over the last several weeks I’ve been reading accounts of a wave of “quiet quitting” sweeping the… Read More ›
IN THE PEOPLE BUSINESS
So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.” ― Ivan Turgenev Earlier… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 