Take a road trip
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. -Lao Tzu Have I ever mentioned that I desperately want a vintage Airstream? My dream is to deck out a big metal vintage tube like a rock band’s tour bus (I’ll pretend to be Tracy Chapman or …
Separated at birth
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. -James Joyce After mentioning in an earlier post my sometimes uncanny resemblance to James Joyce, an observant 37days reader, Rick, investigated further: "You know, you are exactly right! There is a definite resemblance between you and …
Mr Brilliant goes a’bloggin!
My, my, my. It’s a new day. After three years of reading 37days, Mr Brilliant has evidently had enough. Time for him to start his own blog, one connected to his livelihood, focusing on the history of science and math, along with unusual, interesting, oddball ephemera. "I don’t understand it," …
Breakfast at the Victory
I’ve heard it said there’s a window that opens from one mind to another, but if there’s no wall, there’s no need for fitting a window, or the latch. – Jalal Al-Din Rumi I am a big, huge fan of James Carse. His book, Finite and Infinite Games, is groundwork …
Catalog your luminous debris
I believe that the ordinary objects and small, private rituals of daily life, sometimes poignant, sometimes so commonplace as to be overlooked, are sacred and elegant. – Anthony Ulinski The Siren song of John Locke, that urgent materialism, the call of wild need, is strong: Replace that perfectly functional if …
Life is a Verb, after all: Come, play, find your passion, write your story, join us
Just a quick Mark Your Calendar note – more details to follow. The only 37days retreat in 2008 will be held at the beautiful Bend of Ivy Lodge near Asheville, NC, on September 26-28, 2008. If you’d like to be among the first to receive more information about the retreat …
How does a poem get where it is going?
I got an email from my friend Gay today. Did she know–all the way out there on the left coast–that I was missing Billy? How on earth could she know that? And yet she did, and sent a link to this wonderful video of The Man Himself. And after you’ve …
Open some days, closed others
Sent by a reader named Ann Moore, taken on a cozy corner of Culebra, Puerto Rico, on a trip there with students last spring. I don’t know about you, but I think Island Woman is on to something….
I need your help
Dear friends, Imagine that you’re in a bookstore. You’re surrounded by thousands of books. You’ve wandered to the self-help or inspiration section because, frankly, you need some self-help like only Americans can provide it and you need some inspiration because the kids are always yelling in the backseat and you’re …
C is for conversation, curiosity, caring, community
Life’s meaning emerges from conversation in community with people you love. – Dave Pollard I will have real conversations in 2008, fierce conversations driven by curiosity, by caring, by connection, in community, through love. “I found myself unwilling to waste time. I cut right through the bullshit to the real …
