More on paths
Monthly Archives: November 2019
Paths
The Path to Power (Robert Caro’s First Volume on LBJ)
Robert Frost (Two paths in the woods) .
OED: A way or track formed by the continued treading of pedestrians or animals, rather than one deliberately planned and made; a narrow unmade and (usually) unenclosed way that people on foot can use. (Iranian/German roots…) .
A real photographer/artist could do something with the theme of paths, taking photographs of the same path from different angles or along different approaches.
I walk the same loop twice in this graveyard. I’m struck by how different the path looks as I change direction.
Friday Walk
Thurs Walk
You make up your mind, you choose the chance you take
You ride to where the highway ends and the desert breaks
Out on to an open road you ride until the day
You learn to sleep at night with the price you pay…
Weds Walk
OTM presents: Shell Shock 1919: How the Great War Changed Culture
Tue Walk
Cold Monday
Friday Walk
Sunday Walk
Total: walked six-and-a-half miles, crossed the river four times, and used seven different bridges.
Zadie Smith
I loved this essay on fiction and will use it in my opening unit next year. I’m trying to think of questions that I can use to replace a straight literary lens approach to short stories and I’m toying with these two:
What can literature do for you?
What can you do for literature?
She builds the essay around two poems, one we’re reading now (Song of Myself by Walt Whitman) and the other I’ll bring in asap, I measure every Grief I meet (by Emily Dickinson).
