meditations and dialogues about family, books, ideas, and the writing life
Posted in Meditations on life on Nov 9th, 2010
I look at pictures of Las Vegas on line and I want to measure up to the festive experience I sense in the spectacular lights and colors but I simply can’t anymore. My recent trip to Las Vegas, to attend the BlogWorld Conference, has changed my perception of this place irreversibly. And I am almost [...]
Posted in Childhood memories, Poetry on Aug 11th, 2010
Inspired by a conversation I had with a friend, I am reading a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish, and I am thinking about the appealing and yet strange concept of freedom. The question I see being asked and answered in the poem constitutes not what defines freedom but how it is achieved. The speaker [...]
Posted in Family, Meditations on life on Apr 7th, 2010
Time is a strange concept. It doesn’t really mean anything but it defines everything. When I was a child, Easter was about white table-cloth, coloring eggs, making wydmuszki, baking babka wielkanocna, finding the first przebisniegi (galanthus nivalis) along the river. It was about going to church, about family gatherings and conversations about a better, one-day-post-communist tomorrow. This is what [...]
