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The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 by Zaleski Philip (editor)
epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Zaleski, Philip (editor)

These days we trade off, one year at a hotel with my family and the next at a different hotel with hers. Though the location may change, there is an ...
( Category: United States May 17,2020 )
Figure It Out by Wayne Koestenbaum
epub |eng | 2020-03-08 | Author:Wayne Koestenbaum

(2015) “MY” MASCULINITY REMIX 1. In 1994, I wrote a short essay called “‘My’ Masculinity.” Twenty-two years later, I revoke my earlier version and start the composition all over again. ...
( Category: Essays May 16,2020 )
The Writer Who Stayed by William Zinsser
mobi |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:William Zinsser

Central Park Lite Experiential optimization in the app brigade Central Park and I go back almost as far as a man and a park can go. In the early 1930s, ...
( Category: United States May 15,2020 )
Grandmothers by Helen Elliott
epub |eng | 2020-02-18 | Author:Helen Elliott

Judith Brett My Grandmother’s House I became a grandmother last year, at sixty-nine, to a lively girl born to my youngest daughter. My grandmother was forty-eight when I was born ...
( Category: Essays May 14,2020 )
Sixteen Stormy Days by Tripurdaman Singh
epub |eng | 2020-01-04 | Author:Tripurdaman Singh [Singh, Tripurdaman]

‘The State Governments have been betraying a most undemocratic and indeed thoroughly lawless temper in their eagerness to maintain their powers and enforce their pet policies,’ complained another. They not ...
( Category: Asia May 13,2020 )
Believe in People by Karel Capek
epub |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Karel Capek [Šárka Tobrmanová-Kühnová]

About Birdsong The People’s Paper, 9 June 1929 Various commonplace ideas about birdsong are pervasive: that birdsong is delectable, for instance. Conversely I heard the other day a lady, who ...
( Category: Essays May 10,2020 )
The Celestial Hunter by Roberto Calasso
epub |eng | | Author:Roberto Calasso

* * * The Athenian knew that those who are pure and rigorous deniers of the gods are not so numerous. Indeed he had to admit, grudgingly, that some of ...
( Category: Europe May 10,2020 )
Love Letters of Great Men by Kirkland John C
epub |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Kirkland, John C. [Kirkland, John C.]

~129~ The Scarlet Letter by T.H. Matteson (1860) ~129~ Nathaniel Hawthorne to Sophie Peabody September 23, 1839 Boston Belovedest little wife—sweetest Sophie Hawthorne—what a delicious walk that was, last Thursday! ...
( Category: Letters May 9,2020 )
Some Anatomies of Melancholy by Robert Burton
epub |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Robert Burton

Nothing comes in so thick, Nothing goes out so thin, It must needs follow then The dregs are left within. As that old poet scoffed, calling it Stygiæ monstrum conforme ...
( Category: Modern May 6,2020 )
The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Jennifer Ackerman [Ackerman, Jennifer]

* * * — Halfway around the globe, at the Willowbank Wildlife Reserve in Christchurch, New Zealand, Alex Taylor and Ximena Nelson are working to understand whether the warble call ...
( Category: Ornithology May 6,2020 )
The 007 Diaries by Roger Moore
epub |eng | | Author:Roger Moore

Today, we were working on the lovely road to Luca for B-Day Thirty-Eight. It runs from Montego Bay through sugar cane, high wooded hills, and then drops to skirt the ...
( Category: Individual Directors May 6,2020 )
A Chequered Brilliance by Jairam Ramesh
epub |eng | 2019-12-17 | Author:Jairam Ramesh [Ramesh, Jairam]

Rajaji was then India’s home minister, having succeeded Sardar Patel. He would indeed retire from active public life in November 1951 but that retirement was to last just five months ...
( Category: Leadership April 26,2020 )
On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
epub |eng | 2012-05-12 | Author:Thomas Carlyle [Carlyle, Thomas]

LECTURE V. THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. [May 19, 1840.] Hero-Gods, Prophets, Poets, Priests are forms of Heroism that belong to the old ages, make their ...
( Category: Essays April 24,2020 )
Private Investigations by Victoria Zackheim
epub |eng | 2020-04-21 | Author:Victoria Zackheim [Zackheim, Victoria]

I DON’T KNOW THIS WORD – Rachel Howzell Hall – I WAS THREE YEARS INTO MY THIRTIES, AND I KNEW LOTS of words. Elysian. Lollygag. Bloviate. Catawampus. But then I ...
( Category: Essays April 24,2020 )
The Man Who Japed by Dick Philip K
epub |eng | 1956-01-01 | Author:Dick, Philip K [Dick, Philip K]

“I have a feeling,” he said finally, “that due to fatigue you’re growing subconsciously uncooperative. Therefore it’s my decision that we defer the balance of the tests to some other ...
( Category: Humorous April 23,2020 )

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