“Only the past interests me now.”

October 18, 2013

See croppedAlbert Einstein wrote that the separation between the past, present and future  is only a stubbornly persistent  illusion.  This idea is at play in Lisa See’s novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.  The narrator is an old woman who looks back and concludes that she … Read More

“Now I become myself.”

October 12, 2013

parker j palmerParker Palmer quotes this wonderful opening line from a poem by May Sarton  in his collection of autobiographical essays Let Your Life Speak. For him, the process of “becoming” meant taking many wrong turns before finding the right ones. People who know him only as the … Read More