For Me, Before I Learned How To

Previous Technologies Have Expanded Communication. But The Last Round May Be Contracting It. The Eloquence Of Letters Has Turned Into The Unnuanced Spareness Of Texts; The Intimacy Of Phone Conversations Has Turned Into The Missed Signals Of Mobile Phone Chat ... ('you're Breaking Up' Is The Cry Of Our Time).

What Is Kind Of Beautiful About Katrina Is That Even Though The Media And Officials Are Working Hard At Telling Us Everyone In New Orleans Was A Monster, In The Immediate Aftermath More Than 200,000 People Invite Displaced Strangers Into Their Homes Through Hurricanehousing.org And An Uncounted Horde Go To New Orleans And The Gulf Coast To Give, To Love, To Be In Solidarity, And To Rebuild.

....there Are Three Prerequisites To Going Out Into The World To Walk For Pleasure. One Must Have Free Time, A Place To Go, And A Body Unhindered By Illness Or Social Restraints.

All Gardening Is Landscape Painting,' Said Alexander Pope.

There Was An Assumption That Aerial Bombing Of Civilians In World War Ii Would Cause Fragile, Working-class People To Basically Have Nervous Breakdowns And It Would Paralyze The State. That Was The Logic Of Aerial Bombing. In Fact, It Doesn't Happen At All, But The Logic Behind Aerial Bombing Has Never Stopped, Even Though It Never Demoralizes, Terrorizes, Or Paralyzes A Population.