William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) – Return from the Harvest (1878)

Here’s a gem on American immigration since 1607 written by UC Berkeley prof and progressive Ronald Takaki. Not a hateful anti-racism book […]

La Druidesse, 1868, Alexandre Cabanel (1823″“1889), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Béziers.

Fall equinox tomorrow at about 3 am. Indulge Druid friends and acquaintances. You’ve been told.

This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought. “” Eurípides (480-406 BC)

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce […]

So cool. My high school was #197. My law school way up there. And Dook is #7. Am so blassed. No whit […]

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New York Historical Society

There is no joy except in creation. There are no living beings but those who create. All the rest are shadows, hovering […]

Reading Room at the Folger Shakespeare Library

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. — Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Portrait of […]

You can’t wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club. “” Jack London

You can’t wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club. “” Jack London

O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space. – Hamlet Act 2, Scene […]

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft. —H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

Here is the complete text of a circa-1595 comedy by Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost. You can read it aloud–or, even better, act […]

Rule 8 is Think Like the Client–Help Control Costs. The 2006 Explanatory Note for Rule 8–we reluctantly decided that an Advisory Committee […]

Blake [Alec Baldwin]: Nice guy? Good father? –Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet

For a long time I’ve thought that American business schools and the training programs of global and often publicly-traded companies do a […]

“All life is Junior High.” Retired network TV journalist Tom Brokaw said that. He was right. How did they find so many […]

O famous Kent What country hath this isle that can compare with thee? –Michael Drayton (1563-1631), in Polyolbion I’ve been here several […]

Below: Brokaw with Ethel Kennedy fundraising in 1976.