Miscellaneous

Snow I wake, and think so this is how it comes, no thunder, wind, or windstorm’s violence to rend our lower nature, only a presence. Outlines are familiar: light was present yesterday. Without event the miracle is here. Given the day, let crystal loose on me, to see beyond the accident of snow, this brilliance [...]

If you had to pick one photograph to capture the impact of Barack Obama’s election on the rest of the world, I think it would be this one. Taken by Ibrahim Usta for the Associated Press, the photograph depicts Turkish protesters in Istanbul demonstrating their solidarity with the anti-Mubarak movement in Egypt.

On Twitter, we can hear Mirriam Seddiq swearing for five hours because she is stopped in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the beltway.  It’s because of the snow.   “3 miles,” she writes.  “Haven’t come across a lot to leave the car in.  Or neighborhood.  When I do I’m gonna hoof it.” At 7:00 pm, my wife calls [...]

Our neighbors finally took down the inflatable plastic Santa Claus they strapped down onto their front lawn shortly after Thanksgiving.  I breathed a sigh of relief.  My wife laughed at me for being such a Grinch:  Why should I care what our neighbors do with their property? I admit it:  I am a snob. My [...]