Erasing Your Circles
A note on graduation in an unusual year, thinking about barbershops and painting rooms, and our virtual circles.
Category Life
Scotch Eggs and Baked Onions
The perpetual seeming lock-down has gotten us down trying new things. Through a close friend from childhood, I came across the recipe for cooking onions. So, we go down the rabbit hole of the internet, the original domestic goddess, and her early nineteenth-century cookbook.
Review: Christ Stopped at Eboli
My notes on Christ Stopped at Eboli, a semi-autobiographical story of the year Carlo Levi spent in exile in the province of Lucania (current day Basilicata). The region is dirt-poor, scorched by the sun, ravaged by the history of invasions and dominance. Even the benevolence of Christ did not reach them as they profess that He stopped at Eboli, a large town many miles away, without coming to Lucania. It is illuminating how America shines as a beacon of hope to the region.
Test Cricket: Persistence of an Anomaly
A match concluded in Brisbane after a month-long test series fought with verve and grit, among depleting troops and injuries, by teams stretched by the tiresome seclusion in covid bubbles. Test cricket is such a persistent anomaly in the breakneck pace of the current world.
The English and Their History: Review
Since Brexit, I had always wanted to read about the peculiarity of Euroscepticism in England, and the reasons England voted in stark difference from Scotland on the Remain/Leave referendum. I started with the single-volume history of England — The English…
Wins and Losses
Even in the remotest parts of the globe, it seemed unlikely that one could avoid news about the elections in the United States. The drama and uncertainty are still ongoing, even as the voting process has been completed. Like we do often do after every large operation, we should take stock of wins and losses in the process.
Newsletters and Electronic Anti-library
The explosion of newsletters has some people worried that there are too many newsletters and the landscape will soon be transformed into an unfettered electronic jungle-like social media. In my view, complaining that there are too many newsletters is like complaining that there are too many books and too many magazines in the world. I postulate that newsletters should be treated similarly to books and magazines on the bookshelf in your home library. Subscribe a lot, but read for fun.