I recently received a letter from a friend with enough faith in me to believe I’d promptly respond. She asked me, in light of my then impending graduation, which talent I would choose if I could have any in the world. It did not take me a second to conclude: I would love to be [...]
Archive for the ‘self-indulgence’ Category
Dream Job
Posted in music, self-indulgence, work on May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What’s the deal with men and Flannery O’Connor?
Posted in God, memory, self-indulgence on March 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Also, what’s the deal with Coldplay? So much wailing and beats I can barely think straight.
Today is Easter Sunday. A beautiful, hopeful, beautifully hopeful day of TANGIBLE happiness.
No more of this “I vaguely remember happiness existing once in my life…I think it sort of feels the way I feel when I have a pound of [...]
Perhaps I have too many things on the wall above my desk. Perhaps not enough?
Posted in Europe, beauty, self-indulgence, things that make me sad on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
1. A photograph from 1917 of young blind children petting an elephant, visiting their Chicago school from the Ringling Brothers Circus
2. A beautiful collage wishing me a happy Thanksgiving, from G.G. Flint, sister of my roommate
3. (sticky note):
Josh Ritter
PO Box 9751
Moscow, ID 83843
4. (sticky note):
February 15
(the day I will feel better, and ask if B [...]
An Oddity
Posted in relationships, self-indulgence, things that make me sad on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The funny thing about the losing a thing, is that the loss of something makes the nothing even more of a something than the something ever was to begin with. If something has become, in a way, a part of you, insofar as you became quite close to it in a certain fashion, the loss [...]
Proust Questionnaire
Posted in literature, music, self-indulgence on December 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the back of “Vanity Fair” every month, a well-known person is interviewed in the style of two questionnaires Marcel Proust filled out during his 13th and 20th years, respectively. One of my dreams of life is to become well-known enough that someone would actually want to read my answers to these questions.
What is your [...]
