Entry # 1 in In Other Words: An Irregular Series of Collected Quotes
‘everything returns to chaos’
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‘everything returns to chaos’
On the Essence of America: Monica Hesse only gets one thing wrong — testing
https://wapo.st/3Sct3EL Cautionary tales abound about the danger of persnickety obsessions with seeing the one thing wrong with an other wise splendid entity. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tale The Birth-Mark presented to the Sophomore English Honors class at St. Peter’s Prep in 1966 by Mr. John Casey told of the peril of obsession with trying to remove the […]
In Praise of Terry Schreiber
A celebration in five quotations Sometimes the words of others frame our sentiments of appreciation. Here are five quotations that came to mind when thinking of a great teacher, Terry Schreiber. There is more understanding required in the teaching of’ others than in being taught Montaigne I joined the Terry Schreiber Studio in 1980 and […]
TESTING ASSUMPTIONS: Our Problems With Authority Part II
Authority itself is inherently an act of imagination Richard Sennett By definition, an assumption is a belief or concept taken for granted. Testing assumptions generally only happens when circumstances contradict that which we have presupposed as rules and realities of life. Or we want to make sure that our current plans under those assumptions won’t […]
01132026 Quote of the Day
“The authentic and pure values — truth, beauty and goodness — in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object.”Simone Weill
Testing Assumptions: Meritocracy
My dear friend Zeineb Mahzouz sent me an article that drills into a subject that surfaces again and again in my stew of concerns: meritocracy.
Come back, Shame
A Philosophy of Shame by Frederic Gros Matches the Moment — Mostly Growing up in the 1950s, the local NYC area television stations like Channels 9 (WOR) and 11 (WPIX) showed a lot of Westerns. Shane from 1953 proved a favorite for young boys. Bad guys, nice decent father, beautiful mother, gunslinger hero, Shane, hero-worshiping […]
Not The Greatest
What makes a thing or person ‘the greatest’? How did we judge it to be “having the “most significant effects, importance, distinction” over all other similar items? With Muhammad Ali saying he was the greatest the proof was in all those other boxers stretched out on the canvas, but even then my uncles would say […]
We’re All Outfluencers: Attitudes & Beatitudes II
Whether what we write, broadcast, or otherwise put out there changes the attitude and subsequent actions of someone, anyone, depends more upon them than us. Doesn’t the best writing come out of a kind of frustration? The angsty sense that people have it wrong (whatever ‘it’ might be at the moment) or that something is […]
McKeever
My friend of over fifty years Michael McKeever, the man who changed my life in 1972, died yesterday. It’s time for praise not promotion, memorials not memes.