4 Those of you who had e-mail messages to me bounce today, please resend them—I’m using a workaround through Gmail while Verizon, my ISP, lumbers towards the problem (which seems to be with their suddenly hypersensitive spam filters; two hours of my life I’ll never get back).
“It Meurent, Manet’s favorite model and a leading professional cancan dancer, arrived in New York from Paris in September 1868 as part of a troupe of forty-eight artistes to perform in Offenbach’s operettas. She and her young child traveled steerage…”
A whole political-media machinery now exists for the sole purpose of mocking education rooted in an appreciation for diverse humanity, but in the false guise of allegedly brave and serious “heterodox” thought.
The way reading is taught now is an *excellent* way to prepare kids for a sterile, joyless work life devoid of imagination and curiosity.
@SusanDarraj
Quite pleased to see that Christianity Today @CTmagazine has listed my memoir The Accidental Buddhist as one of the Top 5 Books on Buddhism. @AlgonquinBooks @penguinrandom
“As a man gets older, he tends to confuse what he has learned with what he has experienced.” – Harry Golden (1902–81, American journalist)
