Coming this Saturday, a Highland Views column on the life and journeys of an enslaved African whose narrative was published […]
Tag Archive for ‘literature’
Love of Books and Stories
Highly recommend this essay by Salman Rushdie in the NYT: Ask Yourself Which Books You Truly Love “It is an […]
If Death is the End
Preparing to teach the final session of my Emerson class, I came across this line from his biographer, Robert Richardson: […]
Religion, or Life?
In 1832, the year he left the ministry, Emerson wrote these words in his journal: “Religion in the mind is […]
Holding the Opposition
Writer James Baldwin turned nineteen on the day of his father’s funeral (August 3, 1943). A “race riot” had broken […]
The Mind Has Mountains
Woke up to 22 degrees and light, silent snow. Living beauty in the mountains. “Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me […]
Thoreau’s Challenge
I’ll be teaching a course on Henry David Thoreau this spring. These thoughts were springing and sauntering off the pages […]
Life Now–Not When
My friend Jim Gronvold has published a string or strand or stream of books full of something we call “poems,” […]
In a Time of Trumpery
A term more relevant (and chilling) now than ever. “Trumpery” trump·er·y | ˈtrəmp(ə)rē | archaic noun (plural trumperies) attractive articles […]
Self-reliance
Self-reliance and the sacred/secular life In his still-reliable and still-relevant essay from 1839, “Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) preaches the […]
Walt Whitman at 200
Whitman was born 200 years ago this month (May 31, 1819). Today’s column in the Citizen-Times (page one; page two) presented […]
Friendly Freethinker 