Sharings (vol. 6, no. 7)
Here are a few things I’m sharing this month:
1. Question:
- “Why write, if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bull-fighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile, and two-horned topics?” ―José Ortega y Gasset (ht Parker Palmer)
2. Quote:
- “Bertrand Russell’s abiding insight that the key to a fulfilling life as you grow older is to ‘make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.'” – ht Maria Popova (The Marginalian)
3. Poem:
From One-liners or Less, by Sam Hazo
But Marilyn Monroe
outdid them all.
When asked
if she had something on
when Joe DiMaggio proposed,
she answered with grave innocence,
“The radio….”
The shorter the line,
the keener the wit- the keener
the wit, the surer the touch-
the surer the touch, the truer
the art that knows when one word
more will be a word too much.
4. Something inspiring:
- The Library of Consciousness – “Consume the information as you would music, not gospel; as a neo-Buddhist sci-fi romp through the embryonic Gaian hive mind as it awakens and comes to terms with its own existence.” You know you want to click that link! (ht Recomendo)
5. FOOTBALL IS… is ready for PRE-ORDER ON KINDLE
Forty essays and ten game-day speeches on brotherhood, masculinity, and the practice of becoming
Through lyrical essays that move from two-a-days to the mythology of competition, from locker room speeches to the brotherhood that lasts decades, FOOTBALL IS… shows coaches, players, and parents the transformational potential hiding in plain sight on every field across America.
- Free Sampler: Prologue, Introduction, Ache of August
- Listen to the “The Ache of August” as narrated Eleven Labs
- Listen to a podcast overview of FOOTBALL IS… as narrated by Google’s NotbookLM
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Thanks so much. And, have a great day! – shawn
