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A manifesto: On creativity.
Lighting bolt of inspiration? I think not. I received an email from a talented and aspiring photographer-friend recently. She had a question: “…how do you figure out what ‘projects’ to come up with...
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Saturday Quotes
Words, words, words. As has become my habit, here are some Saturday quotes to consider. Specifically, today, writers on words: Words are loaded pistols. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre Words are the supreme...
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“Two truths approach each other…”
Books at Tempo De Lari, Peru, D. Bruns, 2006 I recently read of a woman who spends her entire waking hours reading. Apparently she is a woman of means, or perhaps a woman of no means, like my homeless...
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Saturday Quote
Do you have a release valve? You are familiar with the concept of an ear-worm? That tune you can’t get out of your head? This quote has plagued me like a brain-worm. I can’t think of a pithier...
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North of “Not Many”
Art in a land of giants. The North Woods. We capitalize the words. Sometimes its the Great North Woods. It’s been reported that Maine’s Great North Woods comprises the largest contiguous undeveloped...
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Moleskine Notes
My moleskine. So sorry for yet another repost–but what is a traveler to do? I am left with no recourse: Here is a favorite post from April, 2011. _______________________ I was approached by a...
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Enter Stage Left.
Scene: Bruns kitchen, about 6:45pm. Pandora station streaming (Mumford and Sons in the background). Characters: Doug and Carole Action: Doug prepping dinner, sipping a cocktail. Carole in a chair...
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Reading list: 2012
Not my book shelf. Okay, there is tradition. Who I am to swim against the current? Three years of reading lists. Let the tradition continue. In the year 2012 I read the following: …but before I go...
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Ray Bradbury, Nietzsche, a New Year, and How to Live. Whew!
Did you read the Sunday Time’s magazine last Sunday? It is the annual “The Lives They Lived” issue. As you might imagine, for a guy who’s spent a lot of time working on the project How Best To Live,...
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“Oh, the vision thing.”
Report on the annual slate cleaning. I used to joke that my only New Year’s resolution was to not make New Year’s resolutions. It’s a tired little ditty now and I don’t bother with it. (I’m sure my old...
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We, the readers.
A lot of us at the community of …the house… are readers. Consider, for instance, Susan, a faithful and communicative fellow “house” member. She posted a comment (two actually) after my reading list...
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In the Beginning was the Word
Since we seem to be leaning toward the literary of late, I thought I would share a piece I wrote a very long time ago, twenty-one years to be precise. It was published in the Baltimore Sun, March 25,...
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Habits of Reader-Writers
We’ve been talking a good bit recently about reading and books. I thought you might be interested in the habits of a few famous reader-writer-thinkers. (In no particular order.) John Updike...
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Joy at The New York Review of Books
Sorry to intrude on your afternoon, but I just read an essay by Zadie Smith in The New York Review of Books and am compelled to share. Zadie Smith is one of the best writers working currently–you know...
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Habits of a blogger
I am a rigid and determined creature of habit. I wish it were otherwise. It would be nice to go dancing through life on a whim, bending to curiosity, twisting to spontaneity. I admire the carefree...
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Sunday repost: “Two truths approach each other…”
Books at Tempo De Lari, Peru, D. Bruns, 2006 I recently read of a woman who spends her entire waking hours reading. Apparently she is a woman of means, or perhaps a woman of no means, like my homeless...
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My breakfast with Michael.
I’m away from home, back in Maryland, where I used to live, and have just finished breakfast with one of my oldest and best of friends, Michael. I’ve written before about Michael, specifically our...
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Thursday is Theme Day: Hemingway
Yousuf Karsh’s famous portrait of Papa Hemingway The (new) plan is to program Thursdays around a person, a thinker, writer, philosopher, a creative genius, a traveler–a person whose life was (or...
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Would Nabokov think you a “good” reader?
“A hundred years ago,” wrote Vladimir Nabokov, “Gustave Flaubert in a letter to his mistress made the following remark: ‘What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half dozen books.’”...
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Muses Nine Come Calling.
Apollo, to whom the Muses reported. Apollo released the Muses this morning! What an underserving beast I am to enjoy such grace–the beautiful sprites, dancing on the frozen tundra–Calliope, Clio,...
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