presence

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• Mar 13 The Route Back Toni Morrison, The Site of Memory (in Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, ed. William Zinsser) You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable...
• Feb 26 Only New Ways of Making Them Felt Audre Lorde, Poetry Is Not a Luxury (Sister Outsider) For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt—of examining what those idea...
• Feb 11 Praise for Dappled Things Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things—
• Jan 30 The By-Product Robert Henri, The Art Spirit The object of painting a picture is not to make a picture—however unreasonable this may sound. The p...
• Jan 15 Resistant Surfaces Matthew Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft The use of tools requires a certain posture toward the world: the user must be attentive to the resi...