James Baldwin on banishing fear

“The capacity for experience is what burns out fear.” — James Baldwin, interviewed in the Village Voice in 1984.

Friday afternoon distractions: Wordle

How better to use a Friday afternoon than to make a wordle out of my dissertation? Make your own at http://wordle.net

Matsuo Bashō on the Creative Life

“In this mortal frame of mine which is made of a hundred bones and nine orifices there is something, and this something is called a wind-swept spirit for lack of a better name, for it is much like a thin drapery that is torn and swept away at the slightest stir of the wind. This […]