Fall again...glorious Fall

A stroll along the Charles in November

e-readers are good

I got an iPad-2 this year and am amazed at the convenience and economy of having multiple books on one light-weight device; at the efficiency of having a built-in dictionary and search function available at the flick of a finger. I'm sold. This, from a long-term aficionado of "real" books, a guy who would rather be at a bookstore, browsing and buying, than just about anything else.

July 4th Flyover

Pluck the Finer Fruits

Our jobs keep us incredibly busy. There’s endless work to be done and everything seems a priority. So when the day ends, focusing on life rather then work can be a challenge. It might even make us feel guilty: pursuing a hobby when work problems go unsolved; practicing an art while job issues linger.

Our quality of work reflects our values, certainly. We want to do our best and have successful careers. But our natures and abilities have multiple avenues. In “Walden,” Thoreau declares that most men “are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked…. [our] fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that….the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine.”

We owe it to ourselves to honor our talents and pursue our goals; to use our time well so that we are anything but machines.

Rubs me the right way

Under The Radar

An addition to my stuff..."Health Care Unseen." A tribute to those dedicated, but unnoticed, health care workers doing their best for their patients.

Winter's almost over

Whitman's "The Animals"

Walt Whitman's "The Animals" (number 32 of "Song Of Myself") has been added to "Favorite Pieces."

My Stuff

Check out the new sidebar: My Stuff.

The list will grow.

I hope.