Insanabile Scribendi Cacoethes(The incurable itch to write, independent of having anything to say) We all know this person on twitter…
Author Archives: DavidNE
Playing For Time
Playing For Time (Dark-Side Mix) by Peter Gabriel Far far awayOut amongst the starsThere’s a planet spinning slowlyWe call it oursAny time, any dayAny moment that we bring to lifeWill never fade away Oh, oh the moments come and goWhile the memories ebb and flowPlay again, play againOh, there’s a hill that we must climbClimb […]
Jungles, Gardens, and Hope
The ability of humans to have hope is a remarkable thing; we live in a world where probabilities insist on things like suffering, poverty, and tragedy. It is a world where we bicker endlessly from early childhood until old age. And yet we have hope, it is fundamentally human to have that small kernel of […]
Writing Is Thinking
From Paul Graham’s latest essay, “The Need to Read“: … writing is not just a way to convey ideas, but also a way to have them. A good writer doesn’t just think, and then write down what he thought, as a sort of transcript. A good writer will almost always discover new things in the […]
RIP Syd Mead
Visual Futurist Syd Mead passed away early this year. I’ve been a long time admirer of his since making the connection of his work and the sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner. When I was young I used to draw spacecraft and futuristic spaceports imagining an exciting world of the future. Little did I know there were […]
Frozen Sioux Falls
Becoming a Writer
Sadly this content emanates from a series of tweets. Although it has been unrolled, I’m adding a redundant backup here. Brian Kopelmann on becoming a writer: 1) No teacher ever singled me out and told me I should consider a career as a writer. Come to think of it, no fellow student ever did either. […]
2010s – A Decade In Pictures
These photos spark a rabbit hole of thoughts and emotion.
Intergalactic Sports Ball
“The struggle of good against evil feels less like a cosmic battle than a longstanding sports rivalry between teams whose glory days are receding. The head coaches come and go, the uniforms are redesigned, certain key players are the subjects of trade rumors, and the fans keep showing up.” A.O. Scott on The Rise of […]
Wired for Struggle, Worthy of Love and Belonging
“…we perfect, most dangerously, our children. Let me tell you what we think about children. They’re hardwired for struggle when they get here. And when you hold those perfect little babies in your hand, our job is not to say, “Look at her, she’s perfect. My job is just to keep her perfect — make […]