Our school recently took the Look Up Challenge. This reminded me of a previous such challenge. I was at the National Gallery of Art admiring a collection of inkstands when the guard came over. Now, usually when museum guards approach me, it’s to hassle me about my cleats or cigarette. So I had to […]
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New Year’s Address
If you cannot fashion your life as you would like, endeavour to do this at least, as much as you can: do not trivialize it through too much contact with the world, through too much activity and chatter. Do not trivialize your life by parading it, running around displaying it in the daily stupidity […]
True Grit
“I can’t bear iced drinks… the iceberg, you know. Perhaps some champagne, though.” -Millvina Dean, Titanic survivor