With a hat tip to Andrew Sullivan, here are Christopher Hitchens's Ten Commandments Reimagined.... (read more)
Since the periodicity of my long-running quotations series has been getting asymptotic with infinity, here are the quotes that have been piling up since the last edition... (read more)
"Calm soul of all things! make it mine / To feel, amid the city's jar, / That there abides a peace of thine, / Man did not make, and cannot mar." - Matthew Arnold... (read more)
I am not yet born; O hear me, / Let not the man who is beast or who thinks he is God / Come near me.... (read more)
I saw my first poppy today, while running around the edge of Trafalgar Square. I saw three poppies on my run. The first roasted chestnut vendors are also out, as of last week.... (read more)
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope."... (read more)
"From too much love of living, / From hope and fear set free, / We thank with brief thanksgiving / Whatever gods may be / That no life lives for ever; / That dead men rise up never; / That even the weariest river / Winds somewhere safe to sea." ... (read more)
"My world back after a year, my lost lost world / Like a cropping deer strayed near my path again, /Bewaring the mind's least clutch, turning, I kissed her... (read more)
The opening poem (one of my all-time faves) couldn't be more apt. It went through my head so many times as Josh and I traveled through Spain. The third verse haunted me as we climbed up into the sky, amid the awesome construction of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia.... (read more)
The sunlight on the garden / Hardens and grows cold, / We cannot cage the minute / Within its nets of gold,... (read more)
