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Good Enough to Eat
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters—sometimes very hastily—but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
Frida
Love love love Frida Kahlo. Did you know that she had an affair with Trotsky? That fascinates me, as much of her life does.
This is how truth dies
“In order for someone to lie, they have to think they know what the truth is. For a bullshitter, it’s irrelevant.” – Psychologist Gordon Pennycook
The Infinite Light
The great E.F. Schumacher captured this strange dynamic in the concept of adaequatio — the notion that “the understanding of the knower must be adequate to the thing to be known.” But how do we face our inadequacy with grace and negotiate wisely this eternal tension between the known, the unknown, the knowable, and the unknowable?
Writers Ink—Writing and Stuff 