One Great Moment “An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.” —Susan Orlean, "The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup." February 21, 2018 Kari Howard “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” —Zora Neale Hurston, American writer February 14, 2018 Kari Howard “No single gesture would do more to demonstrate continuity and stability …” —LBJ biographer Robert A. Caro in the book “The Passage of Power.” February 7, 2018 Roy Peter Clark “For what are we without hope in our hearts / That someday we’ll drink from God’s blessed waters / And eat the fruit from the vine / I know love and fortune will be mine / Somewhere across the border.” —Bruce Springsteen, “Across the Border” January 31, 2018 Kari Howard “He longed for a past as imagined as it was real.” —Anthony Shadid, “What Baghdad Has Lost,” The Washington Post, July 12, 2009. January 24, 2018 Kari Howard ’Tis. —Frank McCourt, “Angela’s Ashes” January 17, 2018 Kari Howard “There is a time to write and a time to walk and a time to reflect and a time to act and I come unwillingly to this journal today, wanting to do something less reflective and feeling that I sometimes strip myself of my most reasonable attributes, bent over this machine.” —John Cheever, “The Journals of John Cheever,” 1991. January 10, 2018 Julia Shipley “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.” —T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding" January 3, 2018 Kari Howard “We were taken to the ‘Oh, My God, Corner,’ a position near the escalator. People arriving see the long line and say “Oh, my God!” and it’s an elf’s job to calm them down and explain that it will take no longer than an hour to see Santa.” —David Sedaris, "SantaLand Diaries" from "Holidays on Ice" December 20, 2017 Julia Shipley “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.” —Andrew Wyeth, American painter December 13, 2017 Kari Howard Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 … 16 Next
