What poets, monks and nuns know about silence
Originally posted on Tracy Rittmueller:
Poets live with silence: the silence before the poem; the silence when the poem comes; the silence in between the words, as you drink the…
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A family holiday with David Mamet
David Mamet’s reputation seems to have taken a bit of a nosedive in recent years. His “coming out” as an unapologetic free market conservative may have something to do with…
A 8½ mile putt
From “Golf’s Strangest Rounds: Extraordinary but True stories from over a Century of Golf” by Andrew Ward “A RECORD PUTT ABOVE THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, SEPTEMBER 1997 If a golfer…
Trying to do too much – lessons from the Life Study, the Trappists and David Mamet
Here is a post on my other blog “A Medical Education” inspired by a passage in Helen Pearson’s “The Life Project”, which I reviewed in the TLS. An understandable tendency to…
You Are Not A Product: Johnny Ryan, Brave, GDPR and Ted Nelson’s dream
Readers may have recently seen news that the Brave browser has jointly filed complaints against Google relating to their sharing of personal data. Recently I posted a link to NIthin…
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