Monthly Archives: January 2014

The freedom, integrity, and spirit of a true individual will always be greater than whatever limited, or potentially limiting information revealed by technology and technicians.

“I will begin the world…”–Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House “Begin the World…”–added finale spoken by Esther Summerson to Mr. Jarndyce as she hands him Ada’s baby son Richard; BBC tv series of Bleak House (1985)

The recurring thematic patterns of his serious novels: Early mistakes in life usually based on passion Secrets and Guilt–trying to make a new better life Information (many characters’ chief motivation and fears) Control and manipulation of others (often via knowledge … Continue reading →

is a lot easier when you have dealt with unfinished business of the past and resolved all past missing pieces and conflicts, and truly know, understand, and accept yourself. As well, such is easier if you have made many plans for the future … Continue reading →

“If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again; if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and … Continue reading →

For Best Actor nominee–Robert Redford. He was terrifically convincing as a desperate, but hopeful yachtsman in All Is Lost. What was most incredible about his strongly empathic performance is that it was 99% a silent one, in which you can … Continue reading →

(gr. 9–author as ‘cool chick magnet’; note: fashionable white Ivy League socks, ‘Beatles’ black jacket, slim tie, shirt collar was likely a bar collar–I knew no other students who wore one. Hair styles were still short until next year when kids started to … Continue reading →

(BBC 8 part tv series starring Diana Rigg and Denholm Elliott) It’s been a while… Funny how little London had changed between the late 1500s and the mid 1800s. It was still a smelly, grimy, ugly place in which road … Continue reading →

by Alberto Manguel “The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.” –William Hazlitt, Political Essays, 1819 “Language is our common denominator.” “Writing…a constant flow of language that allowed words to … Continue reading →

They circled the open well lazily, no discernible pattern–about twenty of them–five feet off the ground. You could feel that something was about to happen. Then they shot up in a linear swarm and turned suddenly at the leader’s chosen zenith to arc straight-down, … Continue reading →