2020 Playlist and reading list
That ‘Everyone’s free to wear sunscreen’ thing by Baz Luhrmann (actually an essay by Mary Schmich) has a line in it about how you shouldn’t worry, because the…
Tag: Books!
Do the work
You don’t have to travel to widen your knowledge of human experience. You can read. It’s cheap (and even free if you have a library card). Fellow white…
2019 Playlist and reading list
The majority of the music on this list isn’t even new, but then this was always more about the music that framed my particular year than the music…
2018 Playlist (and books this time too)
He’s made of bones, he’s made of blood
He’s made of flesh, he’s made of love
He’s made of you, he’s made of me
Unity
Literature on repeat
News of the recent passing of Bennett Lamond, one of my favourite and best English Lit professors, in combination with a particularly inspiring weekend full of theatre, spoken…
Russian trains
Russian trains! One of the main points of this trip, and all in all, pretty nice. Clean, safe, on time, largely comfortable, affordable. What more could you really…
Setting off
I am on my first of many, many trains. For the time being, this means my stomach has stopped going all flipped. I have my passport. I have…