Look with your eyes, not with your hands.


Such a minute fraction of this life do we live: so much is sleep, tooth-brushing, waiting for mail, for metamorphosis, for those sudden moments of incandescence: unexpected, but once one knows them, one can live life in the light of their past and the hope of their future.



A grad student muses on her life, film, friends, politics, reality televizzle, and music.

 
Michael Oakeshott - modern political philosopher. this is so good. I should make more time, this is too good - I should make time to actually take his advice too.

"Liberal learning... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and listen to the conversation in which human beings forever seek to understand themselves." from the essay, "A Place of Learning."
posted by lmjasinski at 5:18 PM