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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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- Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day: A Review
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- William Carlos Williams’ “Willow Poem”: Defying Temporality
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Author Archives: RJ
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 it structured my reading. While I didn’t get to read … 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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Touching Matters
We cannot thrive without touch. Of the five senses, it’s the one we can’t do without. And oddly, the most underrated. Through touch we are known and make ourselves known. Without touch, we’d not be here at all. Recently I … Continue reading
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A Brief Life Lived Well: Kevyn Alcoin’s Testament to Beauty
You probably never heard of Kevyn Aucoin. I hadn’t either till just recently. How many good people we miss in the stream of life, despite the myriad strands of humanity linking all of us. Kevyn became famous as a celebrity … Continue reading
Posted in People
Tagged cometologist, gay, inner female beauty, Kevyn Alcoin, make-up
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William Carlos Williams’ “Willow Poem”: Defying Temporality
“Willow Poem” It is a willow when summer is over, a willow by the river from which no leaf has fallen nor bitten by the sun turned orange or crimson. The leaves cling and grow paler, swing and grow paler … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged American poetry, modern poetry, Poetry, William Carlos Williams
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Is Anybody Listening? Voter Apathy on Climate Change
American media should be ashamed! Here we are, facing an unparalleled survival crisis, yet the absence of climate change from Thursday’s Democrat debate. (No opportunity for discussing the Green New Deal.) Then there is the apathy of many Americans. Three … Continue reading
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Tagged Arctic, Arctic meltdown, climate change, climate crisis, Democratic debate, Donald Trump, environment, globalwarming, Naomi Klein
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