Advanced Leisure

I started another blog that I will loosely term a "lifestyle blog." It is really a place for meditating on the nuances of everyday objects and the time that we pass as "leisure." My first post is on chairs. I came up with this idea as a means to prompt myself to think about an everyday object in more creative ways. The more I thought about the subject, the more I realized that such an exercise can be very fun and even surprising at times. I hope that you will check it out. Thank you for reading!

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HIGH AND DRY IN SANTA FE

It is snowing. Looking out the window- I sit in my room waiting (no car, unmotivated [city on COVID lockdown], oh well). The snow looks like Dippin Dots. It rests on our balcony. My wife went out, came back in; now cotton candy-like fluff all over. Only water. I wish I had my car but I really don't have anywhere I want to go. My eyes drift to the yellowing leaves, intermixed with fading greens. The ivy, by contrast, is going red. I want my car. I have nowhere to go. Without it, I feel stranded in the middle of a desert.

A Bar Too Far: Arthur Dimmesdale’s Near Evasion of Earthly Judgement

A Bar Too Far: Arthur Dimmesdale’s Near Evasion of Earthly Judgement Hester Pyrnne and Arthur Dimmesdale committed adultery, sinned, transgressed, and violated the law together. The veracity of these statements depends on one’s perspective; some of these claims are virtual certaintie s while others are less clear. That they violated the law and committed adultery can be traced to the letter of the law and their adulterous progeny, respectively. The nature and degree of their transgressions and sins are less clear . Taken at face value, their society’s conflation of law and religion simplifies these issues greatly: transgression and sin become equivalent. While the narrator is dismissive of the equation of law and religion, the story seems to affirm the necessity of this arrangement by constraining Hester within the iron mores of society. Hester was doubly doomed: Chillingsworth had anticipated her escape attempt (had Arthur...

WUSTL Life-Lines (4/14/20)

April 14 Write a short poem (rhyming not necessary) that includes each of the following 5 words (anywhere and in any order). Poems should not exceed 7 or 8 lines. Gift Fall Brief Still See Send us your poem via our Submissions page or post on Twitter or Facebook using the hashtag # lifelines . I submitted a haiku this time: Spring’s gifts are so brief. Still, I long to see Summer, Fall, and Winter too… -James B. Moog And another poem: The fruit of knowledge, overripe, a gift of gravity after a brief fall. We see only the necessary. -James B. Moog

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