Q: WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN you lose your wallet, the roommate’s got the car all day, and the cat has a mysterious slash on his tail which he won’t stop licking and leaves bloody smears on the chaise-longue??? A:…
Tag: learned
What I wish I’d known before I had to learn it.
Pithyism #1:100
IT IS DIFFICULT TO BE a friend to people and be a friend to their Institution (whether school, religious body, ideology, non-profit or dinner arrangements) when the Institution distracts from its intended focus: people.
Pithyism #69
EVERYTHING IS INEVITABLE — BUT ONLY in hindsight. (This is the truth half-known by determinists and freewillians, and fully by those oracles of the more honest sort. You know who you are.)
Everything I Know About God:
Santayana Amended
THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN from history doom their children to redeem it. (And on that unironically hopeful note, Shabbat Shalom / have a nice weekend / go Red Sox!)
To The Victor Goes the Printing Press
IT’S TRUE THAT THE VICTORS write history — but not all victors are dishonest. Ask yourself: Do they learn from, or at least admit, their mistakes? Trying to overcome one’s own Bad Self ™, personal or cultural, is a good…
An Analysis Of, And Physiological Metaphor Regarding, Lower North America’s Current Two-Party Political Landscape, You Should Pardon My Language
REPUBLICANS HAVE NO HEART; DEMOCRATS, no balls.
Pithyism #418
ALWAYS ALLOW FOR SURPRISES.
Writing News: The Interview
HAVING LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY “DONE this in my sleep(1)” on occasion as ahem an award-winning reporter for the Sonoma Index-Tribune and Sonoma Sun (and freelancer for the Novato Advance, Petaluma Argus-Courier and The Bohemian) and being somewhat-to-greatly rankled by what…
Defining the Soul
WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE REST or fulfillment?
Reb Cat’s Torah
FOR LOVE OF A CAT, one can become accustomed to gifts of mole and rat or parts thereof (and the subsequent carryings-out of their limp little forms). Live baby birds are harder. Especially when they peep from inside the plastic…
Pithyism #2=1
OF THOSE THINGS BETTER UNDERSTOOD by one sex than the other: Women, the dynamics of community; men, the dynamics of solitude.