The Kingdom by the Sea

By On 16 March, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In books, culture and society, life

 

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

-Miriam Beard

A few more pages and I’ll be finished with Paul Theroux’s The Kingdom by [...]

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You’re reading what?

By On 12 October, 2011 · 2 Comments · In books, education, life

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

-Maya Angelou

Last week my public policy professor expressed surprise at the fact that I was reading Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.
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Art is dialogue

By On 1 July, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In articles, life

It’s not every day that you find a 17-year-old who is impassioned with the arts. I have met people, and were friends with some back in high school, whose artistic capabilities were beyond their years. In their own way they were masters of expression, masters of creating and capturing a theme, a moment, an emotion. [...]

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