Daily Archives: February 10, 2010

John Cage on Cactus and Feather

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My Daughter Won a Certificate of Merit from Her School for—Generosity!

My oldest daughter is six years old, and from her school today she received a certificate of merit, not for attendance or academic achievement, but just for being a generous person! Her teacher praised her for being a good friend to her … Continue reading

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An Example of Human Evolution

An excerpt from a recent letter that a reader of Andrew Sullivan’s blog sent to him: I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh, watching Fox News and had a “Proud Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” bumper sticker on my … Continue reading

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2008 Election Flashback: Remember the Barack Obama Arugula Controversy?

Though it never went viral, I thought this guy’s response to Republican arugula outrage was amusing: And I found arugula being sold at Walmart and posted a picture of it:

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Circles” (1841): The Creative Vitalist Lost in Space?

Below are a few excerpts from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Circles” (1841). In this essay he likens the creative artist’s framing imagination to something like the growing layers of an onion building themselves over the dark inner depths of the ontological mystery. Emerson’s thesis is in his … Continue reading

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