What do you have a better chance of being able to open? A computer file you created 12 years ago, or a book that was written 400 years ago. Get books. Read them and you will be reminded of parts of yourself that deserve to be remembered and appreciated.
Tagged as: Reading
Reading Section
The new version of my site has been up for a while now with the Reading page remaining empty...
East of Eden
“The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of..."
Camera Man
“New Year’s Eve 1899 must have felt momentous even if you weren’t a four-year-old backstage at Proctor’s Twenty-Third Street Theater..."
The Metaphysical Club
“Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was an officer in the Union Army. He stood six feet three inches tall..."
Post Colonial Love Poem
“I've been taught bloodstones can cure a snakebite, can stop the bleeding—..."
Gideon, The Ninth
“IN THE MYRIADIC YEAR OF OUR LORD—the ten thousandth year of the King Undying,..."
Klara and the Sun
“When we were new, Rosa and I were mid-store, on the magazines table side, and could see through more than half of the window...."
The Overstory
"First there was nothing. Then there was everything..."
Sabbath Poems, XI.
To give mind to machines, they are calling it
out of the world, out of the neighborhood, out of the body...
Gasoline
"O anti-verdurous phallic were't not for your pouring weight looming in tears..."
Dancing at the Rascal Fair
“To say the truth, it was not how I expected—stepping off toward America past a drowned horse."...
The Best of Saki
“After all," said the Duchess vaguely, "there are certain things you can't get away from..."
The Phantom Tollbooth
“There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always."...
Delicious Gifts
Treats received today from my good friend Will Leathem. I read them immediately...
Recent Arrivals - March 2021
All these acquisitions, and any that aren't here but on the way, are justified by the fact that...I wanted them...
House Made of Dawn
“Dypaloh. There was a house made of dawn. It was made of pollen and of rain, and the land was very old and everlasting..."
Gaze
I imagine her attention falling to me, just for a moment, in this crowd, out on the street...
Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, champion of Beat Generation writers passed away this week at 101 years of age...
Soon
"There is a kind of life that is peculiar to the land in summer—a wariness, a seasonal equation of well-being and alertness..."