by Richard Subber | Aug 18, 2024 | Human Nature, Reflections, Tidbits
don’t pretend this isn’t true…
“We almost always know what the right thing is.”
from The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2016
p. 156
don’t try to forget this
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Book review: Saint Joan
by George Bernard Shaw
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In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Aug 15, 2024 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
what’s it all about?
another thing
j’ever notice
that they never look up
to look at the phone?
head tilted down,
the obvious sign,
body still,
thumbs awhirl,
faintest breaths…
how often have you seen
someone pumping a fist
and shouting “yeah!”
after scrolling down
one more time?
Try talking to that guy
in the waiting room
who hasn’t looked up
from his phone
since he sat down…
think about being him…
it won’t take long.
May 9, 2024
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1491 by Charles Mann (book review)
…lost American legacies
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | Aug 6, 2024 | Human Nature, Tidbits
talk it up…
Samuel Adams (1722-1803) said that friendship,
at its best,
is “thinking aloud together.”
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Book review: Ethan Frome
not being satisfied with less…
by Edith Wharton
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Jul 25, 2024 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
try whispering to your dog
Say what?
We’re not as special as we think we are…
We don’t really rule the earth,
we can’t fly,
or snooze at the bottom
of the deep end of the pool,
and we can’t even roll over when we’re born,
we tend to be messy
when we’re not paying attention,
most of us think wearing shoes is normal,
we think dirt is dirty,
we don’t like to admit
that we eat dead things,
and we think a horse whisperer
is some weird guy,
we think reading and writing
is our thing,
and we think “Sparky, here boy!”
is the right way to call the pup,
and we ignore this mystery:
What if your dog can talk,
but he won’t?
April 19, 2024
I guess you’ve thought about it…
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Book review: The Bartender’s Tale
Ivan Doig’s story, I mostly loved it…
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In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 free verse and haiku poems,
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | Jul 23, 2024 | Book reviews, Books, Human Nature
talk a lot, pick a little…
Book review:
What the Robin Knows:
How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
Jon Young
Boston: Mariner Books-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012
241 pages
“Just as scientists have identified elements of human speech that reflect a speaker’s emotions, field experiments have shown that the calls of many animals provide listeners with information about objects and events in the environment. Like human speech, therefore, animal vocalizations simultaneously provide others with information that is both semantic and emotional.”
p. 105 from What the Robin Knows
The birds talk to each other. All species of birds and many species of other animals also listen to birds. Both prey and predator species listen to the birds. We can listen to birds.
I suspect that Young’s widely experienced detail must be a bit deceptive. I suspect there is more randomness than Young explains. If there weren’t some randomness, the predators would have figured out the patterns long ago.
…and some other thoughts: suppose the birds are really talking…what if your dog can talk and chooses not to?
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“Fishering,” by Brian Doyle
…what meets the eye…
My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Jul 21, 2024 | Human Nature, Reflections, Tidbits
the words will come…
“It is a fact of human life
that one must eventually choose a philosophy.”
from A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles (b. 1964)
New York: Penguin Books, 2016
462 pages
p. 146
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Book review: The Scarlet Letter
the beating hearts…by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 free verse and haiku poems,
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