Poetry: July by Cristin O’Keefe AptowiczThe figs we ate wrapped in bacon.The gelato we consumed greedily:Coconut milk, clove, fresh pear.Read more (https://poets.org/poem/july) Song In My Head: Things Happen by Dawes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNpSpMMfQis Art: Garrick Palmer’s Circular Forms Photo credit: garrickpalmer.co.uk Quote: “When I feed the poor, the call me a saint, but when I ask why …
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Shelf Life for May 2020
Books In ProgressHow To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. KendiA Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne ParryTime Loops by Eric Wargo Books FinishedNone Books Bought/Found/GivenNone “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero Welcome to the newest installment of Shelf Life for May 2020. Not June. May. I’m …
Care Package for Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Who I Am, Day 3There are quite a few new visitors to this blog and the daily Care Package, so I’m spending the next few days dedicating it to some of the pieces of culture that I count among my favorite. I hope you enjoy them. Poetry: Let America Be America Again by Langston HughesLet …
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW PODCAST, Episode 4: Reunited and It Feels So … Odd?
I'm really late sharing this, but the fourth episode of What the World Needs Now is available for your listening pleasure. Our hosts are reunited on Ethan's front porch, and it feels so good. Recording from at least six feet apart, Troy talks about Daniel Radcliffe reading Harry Potter (very meta), and Ethan goes on …
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Shelf Life for April 2020
Books ReadBirds In Fall by Brad KesslerLincoln In the Bardo by George SaundersThe Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White Books Bought/Found/Given to MeNone “How is a story like a bird? It keeps us aloft. It flies. It goes from one place and lands at another, seemingly at random. But its movements are carefully choreographed, …