Yes, that title is a line from an Elizabeth Bishop poem. But that’s fitting. In fact, I do encourage readers to follow the the link at the bottom and read “One Art” in its entirety. It’s a short poem, and quite masterfully written. I am unashamedly no fan of poetry, but there are about five poems in the whole of human literary history that I like, and that’s my favorite of them. Her line: practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel - could be my personal motto. And I have to usher in the next line every time I think of it: None of these will bring disaster.
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Vacations, Pauperdom, and a Measure of Freedom
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Within the space of one week, I had plans for 2.5 vacations fall through. I say 2.5 because two were excursions I was involved in planning, and one was an invitation from a third party that I had to turn down. I’ll admit that two and a half vacations in one year seems pretty extravagant. But the idea of going on no vacation at all makes me frown and think the word pauper (yes, in italics and everything). It also makes me think that the plans we make for our spare time and money are so fraught with pitfalls that I might actually prefer furrowing my brow and thinking the word pauper to actually going anywhere.
If you were a Podcaster….
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010I’m not laboring under the delusion that the people who produce podcasts are reading my blog… but if they were, if they ever had occassion to stop by, I have some advice for them. (Just in case. It’s not, mathematically speaking, impossible that a podcaster could happen upon this blog….) Here goes:
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