May 2010
10 posts
No Man Is An Island
“Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two. It has only one good. That of the Beloved, which is, at the same time, my own…For love does not seek a joy that follows from its effect: its joy is in the effect itself, which is the good of the beloved. Consequently, if my love be pure I do not even have to seek for myself the satisfaction of...
On Travel. →
John Mayer recently wrote:
There’s a level of travel that you can achieve wherein you almost cease to exist as you have been known to yourself. I don’t mean it as in a feeling of meaningless, or emptiness, but a sort of new kind of existence takes place. You become just particles in motion, closer in frequency to a ghost or something. You might think what I’m writing is crazy, and if you do, I...
Crank
Crank: Eng. (Kr-ānk)
Noun
1. A cup of well-crafted and strongly brewed coffee
2. Plural; A series of cups of coffee
3. Referring or pertaining to a period of time in which several cups of coffee are consumed in succession
Verb
1. The act of consuming unhealthy amounts of coffee,
syn. the best time of the day, crank, cranking, crank session, to crank
Federalist No. 45
The Alleged Danger From the Powers of the Union to the State Governments Considered
An excerpt:
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with...
Human Faces.
It’s pretty profound what comfort a human face can do for the soul. We love photographs because they shelve the people we miss over time. In one cathartic instant those who we long for can come back to us. If it’s even just a glimpse of the familiar, the comfortable, the recognizable love in our life—without which I might just feel like a stranger in this world.
But it’s...
