Month: July 2014
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Meditations on Meditations – 1:4
It’s been a little over six months since my last meditations post. Let’s pick up where we left off, shall we? 4. MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER To avoid the public schools, to hire good private teachers, and to accept the resulting costs as money well spent. (Hays, 1) My parents were huge believers in this method.…
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Perfect Craft, Imperfect Art
I was talking with my good friend Evan, discussing our philosophies of making things. Evan, a classically trained pianist, recalled an aphorism of one of his mentors: Practice doesn’t make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. This makes sense in some fields. In playing a piano, if one practices sloppily, one will perform sloppily – incorrect finger…
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Meditations on Meditations – 1:3
Some rather late-night rambling here, but a post nonetheless, so that I may move forward with this exercise. I attended a talk on blogging today by @jessejiryudavis which encouraged writing as practice for writing, so I’m taking that to heart. 3. MY MOTHER Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong…