A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

Fuller, Thomas on Paradise
Quote from Quotations Book

What Scares You?

Here are some good scares, suggested by writers in the WP.

Good breakfasts

It would be nice to have, on hand, good breakfast foods. These are promising.

A book review that might inspire me write again

Salon interviews Jonathan Lethem about his latest book, "Chronic City," and while I've read several other reviews, and listened to a podcast at the New York Times, it was the comparison to his own growing "cultural worldliness" that erupted inside.

"What made me myself," I wondered. And that in itself is a story.

I don't remember a single mentor, but rather a gradual tutoring in life that occurred, and at a distance seems to have happened almost existentially.

@ 25 October--reading a magazine piece in the New York Times, an image floated before my eyes that I hadn't thought of for three decades: a chance drama teaching gig in New Jersey, substituting for my voice coach, at age 20. John gave me that rare opportunity that was empowering and thrilling. Mentor!

@ 14 November - the ideal reader

Our children

Frederick Douglass: “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

Splendour in the Grass

Splendour in the Grass

What though the radiance
which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass,
of glory in the flower,
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.

-- William Wordsworth

Black and White hugging each other, PBS

The ongoing series Craft in America on PBS is spectacular. And the words that many of the artists use to describe their process are inspiring and thought provoking. The artists share the inspiration that comes from memory, landscape, education and places explored and unexplored.

It is worth its weight to possibly buy the series.

An Education

How I want to see this new film about Jenny.

Both Salon and the Daily Beast are giving it rather good reviews.

And the New York Times reviews it, too, today, but not so sweetly.

What a delightful interview with Lynn Barber, the writer behind the film.

Good advice for wellness, energy

Good recommendations to promote energy.

children

Abba in the Garden

Quote: Children by Chesteron

G. K. Chesterton

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

Quote: Rumi on balance

Rumi said, "Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."