Dipping in to Poetry
I didn’t expect my first post on poetry to focus on an author I knew nothing of until discovering them, but here we are.
I didn’t expect my first post on poetry to focus on an author I knew nothing of until discovering them, but here we are.
Eleanor Gibson’s autobiography/James Gibson’s biography is a slim, fascinating book.
Full disclosure: I’m a little biased, as I copy edited them. However, I’ve been paid in full for that work and will not benefit financially from sales of the books.
That might be a controversial assertion in some circles, but I stand by it 100% in this context.
“An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.” — Thomas Paine, in the 1795–1796 pamphlet Agrarian Justice.
Sig and I set out some time ago to complete a paired reading of Carl Jung’s autobiographical book Memories, Dreams, Reflections. It did not go as I’d thought and hoped it would.
Today I want to honor a person whose words have immeasurably changed my life for the better. If he were alive, today would be his 72nd birthday.