The Society of Split Minds

Maybe this is a sign I’m turning into my father as I age, but I’ve really embraced the art of reading in the loo.

They are both darkness: they are both lights.

“There will be a lot of sewing last year’s fragments with this year’s threads.”

Population: Us

I fear I am admiring the problem, thrilling to ever more accurate descriptors that tell me precisely how and why I’m locked in this unfulfilling spiral, rather than taking steps to change my behavior.

Pause

Happy old age is coming on bare feet, bringing with it grace and gentle words, and ways which grim youth have never known.

Make Haste Slowly

In a chapter of Always Coming Home titled “Long Names of Houses,” Le Guin writes: “It is hard for us to conceive, harder to approve, of a serious adult person not in a hurry. Not being in a hurry is for infants, people over eighty, bums, and the Third World. Hurry is the essence of … Continue reading Make Haste Slowly