"I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys paint upon his palette. Behind every Chesterton sentence, there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particular good sentence or [...]
Category: Life and Literature
On Beards and Manbuns
Very recently, I've developed "an extremely strong desire to mentally consume" all episodes of this small screen/ Netflix wonder (read: I binge-watch these episodes in my spare time, with my father occasionally joining to watch. ) It simply cannot be helped. The large-scale production of a historical drama, with larger-than-life characters, created by the legendary [...]
Video: “Say you won’t let go”
One can easily fall in love with this song... The melody is really good, and the lyrics, though simple, ring true. This is clearly my favorite song for 2016. (:-) May we all find this kind of ideal.)
Screams in ink
A short piece on my silent thoughts about writing in a journal and how private things need to be kept private. A diary is like a confessional... the burial ground, the seed bed, the debating arena of all your deepest, darkest fears. No matter how large or small it is, it probably holds the biggest [...]
The personal narrative
I got this idea after reading Vivian Gornick's "The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative." I'm starting to explore this avenue." And I quote: "The writing we call personal narrative is written by people who, in essence, are imagining only themselves; in relation to the subject in hand. The connection is an [...]
Love at first sight
I agree with Victor Hugo on this one...there is something about the whole love-at-first-sight thing that inspires poetry. Or quotes such as this one. Perhaps it is much better to understand what VH means when you have had this "moment". It burns deep into your heart, and it is unlikely to be forgotten, this [...]
