Gasping for air as I summited a 10,000 peak, or paddling onwards through a downpour that nearly filled my canoe completely with water, gave me a fearlessness, and a confidence to overcome any obstacle. When I met Caleb freshman year, it was the most natural thing for me to ask him ...
However, even from what we have discovered with the help of science, we see such a wonderful wisdom hidden in all of this rich mechanism, and yet, we who are at the summit of this science, at its peak, don’t see any meaning in our lives. How is such a thing possible? Without a...
more specifically the Trojan War, which is said to have been over a 10 year period. The story of the ILIAD itself covers only about 2 months of the war. Strangely enough the ILIAD is considered to be a poem
(Of Mt. Hale my friend was like “I hope the summit view is worth the hike!”. Friends, there is no summit view at all on Hale.) We laid in the middle of the river to watch night overtake the sky and the Milky Way emerge, and were in bed asleep by 9 pm. Up with the sun ...
battered third trumpet booklet bought in a used book store in Edmonton Canada. Ah, the days before the internet were hard folks. I was never quite confident whether that last note was meant to be unresolved or whether it was a chord and I was playing the third trumpet part.)...
“It’s really coming through and it’s nourished by the fact that people are fed up with politics, with what’s happening at the summit of the state. It’s very new in fact. I’ve never seen that anger before, that punk aspect that’s swelling up.” When I ask Mbongwana Star ...
Salt touches his tongue as he tilts his face towards the summit. This was his Everest. He was done training. The two wheels sat lifeless in the garage watching him from a distance. He believed that with enough speed he could roll forever. The extra weight only slowed him down. ...
Granted, maybe this isn’t something they’d pay $10 to see at the movie theater…but to stream on Netflix, why not? Basically, with Charlie (character) and his flaws (theme), you’ve got material for a gossip column. With Charlie (character + theme) and a goal (plot), you’v...
The Greatest Short Stories of Anton Chekhov About the Book I own the paperback version of The Greatest Short Stories of Anton Chekhov. The book was translated by Constance Garnett who in addition to translating the stories to English also wrote a short bio of Anton Chekhov. This book is 623...