Do you think it is possible to save money and get in shape at the same time? I am going to try it and here is how. Off shopping list: beer, cheese, fowl, fruit juice, meat, most fruit, milk, spirits, wine. On shopping list: almonds, beans, brown rice, buttermilk, couscous, lettuce, limes, melons, miso, olives, … More Shopping List
I enjoyed Anne Lamott‘s Bird by Bird, wherein one is allowed to have an otherwise lackluster day if one is writing and still call it good. In this book writing can be messy and it has to do with life. In that way I find Lamott more interesting than Robert Boice who wants one to … More Working It Out
Petita bonica, lireta liró. Rossignol que vas a França, rossignol. Nightingale on your way to France, send me a score above 160. Naturally I want a score above 170 but that would be lagniappe. Above 160 is good, rossignol. Student: I failed because I did not do homework. Two years at this university and I … More Lo que ens falta, ho tindrem, lireta liró
Axé.
I never paid a great deal of attention to this song as it was ubiquitous — on every radio station, in every faded dime store, and wafting from every surf wagon. But it came to me the other day and I have been thinking of it since. It really is quite brilliant. Axé.
…so as to get into things. This version of Viva mi patria Bolivia, from the concert at Sing Sing, was gone from the Internet but it is back, so we will post it again. Here is the original. ¡Adentro! Bolivia is one of the very best countries. Axé.
It is another sweltering night. Some thing is moving on this page. You who can not be the sun’s right hand or the left thumb of the goat god Pan, the sun’s blood goat Pan, you must then be love. The bad love the stars give, all glitter eyeliner. What began as a sort of … More Es otra noche sofocante
I think a lot of people believe life is suffering and think the above kinds of attitudes are normal. I think a lot of other people believe that pointing out problems is just letting off steam. I do not agree. Neither do I relate to the truism that change is hard — which seems to … More An Illumination on Robert Boice, 4
Here is another film I haven’t had a chance to see, but which is recommended by a friend without a PhD or an academic job. I want to see it because it sounds very interesting and also because the actor Jorge Perugorría has, in many of his roles, a relaxed good humor that I recognized … More La vida según Muriel
I have heard that during the two years Thoreau spent at Walden, he sent his laundry back to town for doing. This is funny but I actually think it is all right given the nature of his project. “To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts,” said Thoreau in Walden, … More Walden
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