Best Photos from the Week of Walking
Friday to and fro
Thurs AM Walk
Weds to and fro
Tues AM
Monday Walk
(Another) reading response
Published in the paper version yesterday, but online since 10/24.
All in all, it looks as if success follows not from knowledge and skill but from luck, hype and access to the right companies. If this is the economy students believe they’re entering, then why should they make the effort to read? For that matter, how will any effort in school prepare them for careers in which, apparently, effort is not rewarded?
More later.
Sunday Photos
Writing (Klinkenborg)
Writing doesn’t prove anything,
And it only rarely persuades.
It does something much better.
It attests.
It witnesses.
It shares your interest in what you’ve noticed.
It reports on the nature of your attention.
It suggest the possibilities of the world around you.
The evidence of the world as it presents itself to you.
Proof is for mathematicians.
Logic is for philosophers.
We have testimony.
Klinkenborg, Verlyn. Several Short Sentences about Writing. First Vintage books edition. New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2013.
Friday to and fro
