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Archive for October, 2007

This taught me a lesson,
but I’m not sure what it is
John McEnroe

We’re all trapped in a university with no walls, admission fees or desirable exits. We’re presented with exams every moment of every day. They’re all open book, nothing is forbidden, everything is allowed. You can collaborate or work alone. It’s both our private [...]

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I was recently asked if I believed in an afterlife. Here’s my response.
There is no more anything after the door closes, than there was before it opened.
What we have is Now – a brief time between the cradle and the grave – we fill it how we choose. With friends and hugs, fine wine [...]

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And scribbled lines like fallen hopes
On backs of tattered envelopes
Francis Hope

The pen flows effortlessly over paper, an idle thought, a line in time, a beat of life, a bird in flight, the awakening dream. Bang! Your attention’s caught again, the note’s discarded, back to work, no time for gathering wool, for dawdling, for doodling.
“I’m [...]

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