Where the Naked Things Are

There is simply no sensible way of comparing the worth of human lives. ------ Kwame Anthony Appiah ----------------------------------------------------------- Conflicted My voice Falters Exposed To others I turn To listen To learn ------ Google brings me first to the voices of two students. A young white man and a young woman of color. Both were probably about [...]

“Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not [...]

Hi there. A while ago, my sweetheart and I decided to create a social game. And now we'd like to invite you all to play... The Naked Game. But first, we would like your input so please read on. ------ We came up with the idea while driving down to Rochester and after playing the [...]

The perfect enemy of the good A moment's expectation Usurping accommodation Thinking a thing must Behave, look and/or feel Just Exacts Visions Acts Fantastic ideals Reacts Reels I rail Thusly I fail My world wonders why And then By and by My worldliness wanders Ponders Agenda laid bare Naked Aware My love leaves no trace [...]

We make our own holidays Our time changes Everything and nothing Gone are the fears of tradition The tearful rendition No more the phony fad tunes Artifice, nom de plume Give us not We take our own solo-days Our shine ranges Everywhere and nowhere Here is the joy and the sadness The odd random gladness [...]

I'm walking through the narrow streets of a very old city. There is dirt and dust everywhere. The buildings on either side of the street I'm on now, are all at least three stories high. One has tall white pillars and crumbly sides. The stairs are crumbly too. I am suddenly drawn inside. Someone in [...]

“If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.” ------ Warren Buffett ---------------------------------------------- I've been pretty bad at managinging my money most of my life, so I found it interesting this morning to discover that I share such feelings of gratitude with [...]