“Have you made a resolution?” my wife asked. Had not.
She said that rather than make grandiose plans – join a health club -- it is better to lighten the load, leaving more room and time for better things that come up. She is consolidating some details – stuff that banks and companies don’t seem to know how to do anything, on automated phone hell. Made sense to me. I hereby vow to write less in the new year about things I don’t care about – sports that vanished in my rear-view mirror years ago. Just because the web is an endless maw doesn’t mean we should try to fill it, minute by minute. For a while, I’m going to lay off Donald Trump and Pete Rose (who may, in fact, be the same person.) Plus, any web site that inserts 15-second video commercials is getting X’d out of my queue. That’s not why we learned to read and think, to watch stuff jump around. I will write about stuff that excites me – like discovering a new Shakespeare play (for me, that is). But enough for today. 1/5/2016 09:49:31 pm
George,
George Vecsey
1/6/2016 08:27:02 am
Alan: something tells me the first thing I should give up (or cut back) is sitting at the laptop for hours, typing. 1/6/2016 12:08:49 pm
Keep pecking away as the computer is the portal to so much enjoyment. Just keep the back supported and the head up as much as possible. 1/12/2016 04:06:37 am
Every one know that how to generate free playstation network codes and which best place for plastation codes free. 8/16/2016 04:43:02 am
Having read through this I consider it truly is quite enlightening. 8/16/2016 04:44:11 am
Its just like you read through my head! You appear to know so much about this, Comments are closed.
|
QUOTES
“They may hate the cultural context they now find themselves teaching in, but they love their work. The Achilles’ heel of schoolteachers, one all too easily exploited by politicians, is that they love their students.” (One of the best reads in the NYT these days is Margaret Renkl, in Nashville. In her latest post, Renkl describes the dedicated core of “born teachers” – the majority, she submits.) *** (From Madeleine Albright in one of her final interviews in February): “Putin is small and pale,” I wrote, “so cold as to be almost reptilian.” He claimed to understand why the Berlin Wall had to fall but had not expected the whole Soviet Union to collapse. “Putin is embarrassed by what happened to his country and determined to restore its greatness.” – Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, recalling her first meeting with the relatively unknown Vladimir Putin in 2000. – The New York Times, Feb. 23, 2022. Categories
All
|