300 words on chaos
Let me make a confession: I enjoy watching systems fall apart. I get a real kick out of chaos. It delights me to no end. I’m not talking about people dying and suffering. That happens anyway, whether we wish for it or not. No, I’m talking about the failure of our man-made organizations and processes. [...]
Read More300 words on creating art
Create something, people. Anything. Don’t say you’re not a good artist or painter, or that you suck at writing. Quality isn’t the point, the creation is. If the quality of the creation was so important, God would get a terrible review of his work. Human beings are meant to create art, and art can be [...]
Read More300 words on men and women
How they work Women are like a fine-tuned precision tool – like a metrometer or a barometric gauge. There are many working parts which must be kept in working order. They must be calibrated. Men are like hammers. We’re blunt-ended and our purpose is quite evident. We can be used for any number of jobs, [...]
Read More300 words about a hammock
Today I was lying on my back in the hammock. I looked up – my point of view was covered with a criss-cross of tree limbs. The scenery was draped with jutting, jagged limbs, they seemed to point at one another as if in a confrontation. The shadows made them look strange, and I couldn’t [...]
Read More300 words about the debt ceiling
Any hour now, a few slick members of Congress will stand themselves in front of a sea of microphones and tell us how heroic they are. The Great Debt Crisis of 2011 will be remedied. They will be use measured words and be self-congratulatory. They will beam behind their toothy grins and look eagerly into [...]
Read More300 words on being an only child
I wish I had been a twin. I wish my twin had been a girl named Sophie. She would be pretty in an understated way and she would be funny. Clever funny. She’d love to write and we’d share our passion for words. She’d call me by some peculiarly obscure adolescent nickname like “Sliver”, and [...]
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