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- Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: An Earth Day Tribute
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- Morning Routine Wins the Day
- Review: Paul Collier, Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World
- 2020 Draw-Bag Reading List
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Emily Brontë’s Faith Poem: “No Coward Soul is Mine”
I’ve always admired Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights as a supreme literary achievement. In teaching it over the years, its structural complexity, thematic depth, and passionate intensity never failed to astound me. Putting it another way, Wuthering Heights has haunted me, … Continue reading
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Tagged "No Coward Soul is Mine", Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Haworth, Methodists, Poetry, Romantic poetry, Wesleyanism, Wuthering Heights
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The Fate of our Animal Friends in Pandemic Times
The untold suffering of our animal friends, victims of collapsing slaughter houses in the wake of mass worker viral infections, is so manifest it shouldn’t be ignored. It isn’t just Asian wet markets that need closing, though China bristles in … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged animal cruelty, animal welfare, corona virus, factory farms, industrial farmiong, Peter Singer, pigs, Veganism
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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: An Earth Day Tribute
I’ve just finished reading Rachel Carson’s classic Silent Spring, written back in 1962, but still timely. President Kennedy read it eagerly, followed by Nixon in a time when presidents read books. (President Obama is another omnivorous reader in our … Continue reading
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Tagged DDT, Dicamba, Dorothy Freeman, environment, Monsanto, pesticides, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, The Sea Around Us
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Sally Rooney: Up to the Hype?
I took up reading Irish literary sensation Sally Rooney to find out what the fuss was all about. After all, she’s only twenty-eight and has written two novels that have rocked the literary world, Conversations with Friends (2017) and Normal … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, booklists, books, Conversations with Friends, Irish Times, Normal Peiope, Sally Rooney, writing
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Morning Routine Wins the Day
Yes, I admit to following a daily regimen that some may call being in a rut; but I much prefer its discipline, the empowerment it confers over my many infirmities and the peace it affords in keeping chaos at bay … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle
Tagged amy Landino, discipline, Epictetus, exercise, habits, mastery, mindfulness
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Review: Paul Collier, Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World
Not long ago, Hillary Clinton controversially summed up Britain’s Brexit morass as essentially about immigration: “Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/hillary-clinton-europe-must-curb-immigration-stop-populists-trump-brexit A way of saying that only then can Europe … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, books, Emmigration, Exodus, immigration, indigenous, Pau; Collier, reviews, writing
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2020 Draw-Bag Reading List
I can’t believe it! Another year has passed. Last year, I drew up my first annual Draw-Bag Reading List (2019). Happy to say, I’m glad I did it, as it structured my reading. While I didn’t get to read every … Continue reading
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Tagged booklists, books, curated books, draw-bag reading list 2020, fiction, literature, non-fiction, novel, Reading, reading lists, writing
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Rupi Kaur: Pop Poetry Phenom
Just read New Republic’s glowing assessment of Canadian Instapoet Rupi Kaur, reflected in its swollen title, “Rupi Kaur is the Writer of the Decade.” (New Republic) Not even thirty, she’s published two poetry volumes, Milk and Honey (2015) and The … Continue reading
Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day: A Review
I’ve always had an affair with nature, relishing its solitude away from the human world. I’ve loved nature even in its changing moods that can be intolerant of human frailty and frequent arrogance. With every dawn, I relish the birth … Continue reading
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