Intention and Want
Intention and want are undervalued, yet powerful, acts of
character that define people in their place. Both actor and audience must have clear wants and intentions to perform and follow — or the dramatic tension will collapse.
Ten Forty-Seven
Cogent crimes of the mind become deceptions of the heart.
Ten Twenty
Evelyn turned twenty, missed her teens, and the subtracting began.
Saluting the Muslim American Solider
Colin Powell appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday and he made an eloquent defense for Barack Obama as president while resoundingly defeating the cruel, and unfounded, attacks by the radical right wing that Obama is as Muslim when he is not; but, Powell argued, what if Obama were a Muslim? What difference would it make? What difference should it make? Then General Powell mentioned an arresting image he saw in the New Yorker showing Elsheba Khan resting her head on the grave of her dead Muslim American son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. Powell told us Special Khan fought for America and his sacrifice was no less than that of any Christian.
The Peril of a Mechanical Pencil
The modern world made a sea change when the wood pencil was replaced by a mechanical one — and what was lost in that industrial design exchange was our tether to the land, a sense of impermanence, and a shared yearning for renewable resources.
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