Longtime readers will recall that last year I participated in National Novel Writing Month, quitting halfway through due to exhaustion and/or ambivalence. This year I will not be attempting to write a novel in 30 days, although I probably should. You know what else I should probably do? Get a job. But I’m not going [...]
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The Bookshop
When I was in college, I worked at the college bookstore. One day a girl came in, took a pen off the shelf and brought it to the register. Then she took an old pen from her pocket. “I used up all the ink in this one,” she said, indicating her old pen. “Can I [...]
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A lofty heart
The elder Zosima to Ivan Karamazov, who wondered, essentially, whether faith and reason could be reconciled: But thank the Creator that he has given you a lofty heart, capable of being tormented by such torment, “to set your mind on things that are above, for our true homeland is in heaven.” May God grant that [...]