2008: A FRESH START“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”Andy Warhol My New Year’s Resolution’s have traditionally seen spectacular successes that made the whole exercise worth it – and a few utter failures which are recidivist in nature. In focusing on the failure, I wonder at why I just don’t get it done. Much of it, I think, has to do with work. The new semester begins and I am so traumatized in terms of trying to get a handle on my classes that three months pass before I can even contemplate my own life. I am in “survival” mode. But that does…
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An Uneasy Morning of Violence and Lassitude: The World Is Not Well
ASSASSINATION SERVES THE CAUSE OF DISCORD“Someone shot Bhutto in the neck and chest, initial news reports claimed, and then the assassin blew himself up.” DECEMBER 27, 2007 at 6:47 a.m. An unquiet mind drove me from my bed this morning. An acute personal disappointment of the previous day, and then brooding and anger over the War in Iraq and disappointment with George W. Bush and the Republican Party (and the direction of my country in general), turned over and over in my mind in the darkness after I woke up around 4 a.m. For two hours in the pre-dawn darkness I “knitted the old knot of contrariety” and tossed and…