What Others Have Said: Marshall Rosenberg

"Which game do you want to play? Who's right, or Let's make life more wonderful."

From Charles Blow this Morning

As James Baldwin put it, “I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”  More here.

What Others Have Said: Marie Howe

What the Living Do

a poem by Marie Howe

Johnny, the kitchen sink has been clogged for days, some utensil probably fell down there./And the Drano won't work but smells dangerous, and the crusty dishes have piled up/waiting for the plumber I still haven't called. This is the everyday we spoke of./It's winter again: the sky's a deep, headstrong blue, and the sunlight pours through/the open living-room windows because the heat's on too high in here and I can't turn it off./For weeks now, driving, or dropping a bag of groceries in the street, the bag breaking,/I've been thinking: This is what the living do....(More)

More Is Less

The blurb below was emailed to me from my gym, and, I happen to know, was composed by my daughter.  

There is no remedy for love but to love more.    –Henry David Thoreau

There is a funny makes-no-sense math thing that happens sometimes. For instance, exercising more can be a remedy for not liking exercise. Or eating less being a remedy for wanting to eat more. Or giving things away as a cure for desiring more things.

Go figure.