Category: linkpost
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OPW: THEBLOG WEEMADE
This is an odd installment of “Other People’s Words,” because even though the words are good, they’re not the primary thing I want to draw your attention to. What I want to have a look at this charming site, called “THEBLOG WEEMADE.” As the name suggests, it features drawings by young children. And the reason,…
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Taking the Week Off
Though I don’t like doing it, I’m taking the week off. I’ll be back next Monday. While I’m away, how about a few reruns? They’re mostly fiction, and mostly my words, and some certainly could have been better. But the important thing to remember is that if you’ve never seen them, they’re new to you.…
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Doldrums and Departures
Late August in Washington is about as busy as a western ghost town. That’s certainly an overstatement, but excluding all the departures, very little has been going on. And the departures, as you’ve probably noticed, are numerous. First, Karl Rove announced that he was leaving. Then, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced that he too would…
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Bob Thurman on Compassion
Bob Thurman is an American Buddhist. At TED2006, he gave a great introduction to the ideas of interconnectedness and compassion. It’s a really good summary of the concepts; he has fun with them rather than dwelling on their nature and substance. I found this though of personal value, who gives a great synopsis thusly: It…
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Andy Stern on The Charlie Rose Show
I was so pleasantly surprised by this conversation between Charlie Rose and Andy Stern, the leader of the Service Employees International Union, that I couldn’t avoid posting it. Mr. Stern, whose group splintered from the AFL-CIO a few years ago, shows himself to be an acute observer of the problems of our country and the…
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PostSecret: Father’s Day
Today is Father’s Day. As is his custom, Frank Warren, PostSecret‘s curator, has posted a number of lovely and heart-breaking secrets from people all over the country. And though the site is not without it’s failings (most notably that secrets only stay up for a week), it’s consistently fascinating to read other people’s anonymously disclosed…