The Catalan anarchist Salvador Puig Antich was garroted March 2, 1974. We went down from Jutland at Easter, to spend a week in the sun. I signed up to study in Barcelona, and learned many Lluís Llach songs. This is one of the most beautiful. It is about the 1974 rebellion in Portugal, but I … More On dorm la lluna blanca
My first academic job was in an area with which I was somewhat familiar, and where I knew some people. This made moving easy. My second was far away. In both, other new faculty soon began telephoning me to ask how to live there. I had not realized I was especially good at discovering this, … More How To Move, or, I Am Not a Tourist
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.
Check out Joan Manuel Serrat singing this famous poem, and observe these amazing Civil War photographs from Spain. Hernández wrote the poem in a Nationalist prison, upon receiving a letter from his wife saying she and the child were living on bread and onions. Here, Maria de Medeiros sings it. 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.
…these were some new songs, and I think of them in spring. Axé.
So it seems that what people are eternally learning is that you do not need large blocs of time in which to do work, you just need to actually use the time you have. The claim of needing large blocs of time is a delaying technique. I agree, but with one caveat: they do not … More Postscript on Time
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
…Ignoro lo que será del enfermo esta mujer, que le besa y no puede sanarle con el beso, le mira y no puede sanarle con los ojos, le habla y no puede sanarle con el verbo. ¿Es su madre? ¿Y cómo, pues, no puede sanarle? ¿Es su amada? ¿Y cómo, pues, no puede sanarle? ¿Es … More Las ventanas se han estremecido…
If I accomplished something, it must have taken too much time. If I am planning something, I must be planning to take too much time. If I am doing something, I must be going too slowly. I feel guilty about time, or fearful. But really, the key to everything is to give yourself enough time, … More An Illumination on Robert Boice, 7
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