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Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto
-Terence
From The New Atlantis
The extraordinary story of two Pacific voyages of discovery a thousand years apart
From Plough Quarterly
After the second Mass, he unloads the cows and throws out bales for them to munch on south of Gillette. We crack a Coors Light and lean on the back of his truck, his black clerics dusted with hay and dirt. “My grandpa had a few things he always told us kids,” he says as he takes a sip. “One of them was ‘always wear your hat.’ In some way, that’s just a good piece of advice. A hat keeps the sun off of you and all that. But I also think about how he said always wear your hat. You gotta be who God called you to be.”
From Comment Magazine
Language, for Douglass, had an intimate relationship with flesh…His language had the power to make people feel in their own flesh the suffering bodies of slaves; it had the capacity to motivate them to relieve that suffering.
From Plough Quarterly
The Prized, Desirable Sight: The Meaning of the Moon Landing 50 Years On
The New Chicagoan
Sentiment and fantasy fade with intimacy, but poetry and love thrive on closeness, which, paradoxically, always reveals deeper mystery.
What a 19th Century Catholic Poet and Addict Can Teach Us about the Opioid Crisis
America Magazine
There was in his day too much emphasis, Thompson thought, on meritocracy, or the idea that the strong and capable should flourish as best they can, and so much the worse for those who get left behind.