It is likely that I ought to be more serious about the future. My future, to be exact, though, since it hasn’t arrived, I can’t be sure it will. You know how it goes. I think I have some money invested somewhere, from my one-year stint as a teacher back before Y2K. I haven’t kept [...]
August 18, 2009 4 Comments
August 6, 2009 Leave a Comment
The crowd and mud.
Where two or three are gathered in my name, I’m there. –Jesus, Matthew 18:20 The bookstore is a loud place, even if the customers aren’t speaking. In times like today, when I have enough noise in my head, being surrounded by thousands upon thousands of ideas and theories and opinions and images all vying for [...]
July 9, 2009 14 Comments
Ennui.
The first time I’d even seen the word “ennui” was in reading Edward Gorey’s odd book “The Gashlycrumb Tinies.” The book has an image for each letter of the alphabet, with each letter being the name of a child and how the child dies. The letter “N” brings us Neville, who dies from ennui. Ennui: [...]
