It has been interesting to learn how very positively people remember their elementary school library experience. Without exception, each person to whom I’ve mentioned my new employment proves to be equal parts enthusiasm and nostalgia, primarily recalling school libraries as bastions of encouragement in a place that felt safe. These reactions certainly reflect the reasons…
Tag: Writing
Stating internal truths is a necessary first step to externalizing influence.
What is writing good for? At the very least, the articulation of one’s free-floating inner moral compass. To translate the feeling sense into a comprehended form. Opportunity abounds to do so. For example, @ regulations.gov, there is opportunity to leave public comment on various proposed matters of legislative oversight. I recently left my following two…
What seems obvious now was previously masquerading as a dazzling epiphany.
As illustrated by the perhaps inevitable yet mercifully slight mortification that attends self-critiques after a job interview, there is considerable lag time between the opportunity to speak and the realization of what one perhaps ought have said. Current example: I realized that my overarching blog title quite obviously promises two things, one of which I’ve…
Individuality is largely a matter of voices in the head.
As a nice break from the unfettered speechifying that most frequently occupies my version of the voicings I assume all hear within (my own consistently waxing impassioned about our triumphant restoration of earth, Union, and souls), I often also have songs running through my head (musicians call music heard in mind “ audiation”). The songs, often rhymes,…
Casting
As is congruent with my somewhat involuntary, ongoing hobby of writing a perhaps endless stream of cover letters from a place of cheerful detachment, I finished up another one today! This university position is particularly appealing in its adherence to the liberal arts tradition as a bastion of positive social change, and so inspired a…
Patriotism
For a person interested in gaining a measure of the wisdom in the world, it seems a natural thing to start with a close reckoning of familiar details and people. This tendency to contemplate the familiar in part explains the attention I paid as a scholar to Native and African-American experiences in the Early American…
Writ
Wholly aware of the irony as I record my thoughts within this highly public yet technically faceless sphere of the internets, I frequently muse upon the dangers of words written from a place of physical remove. Communications undertook apart from the presence of ears also connotates an absence of psychic frequencies, and from there little…
Basically
In what I admit and intend to be a wholly off-the-wall and perhaps utterly inappropriate approach to writing my most current cover letter, I make the following effort to keep it real: In addition to the indigenous speeches and texts of my specialization, I focus on this country’s founding documents as critical tools for unpacking…
Plants
It’s always a bit of a thrill when a new issue of The New Yorker arrives. I’ve often composed letters to the editor in my head, without actually writing or sending any. I thought it’d be fun to finally capitulate to the urge. Here’s what I sent in response to an October 23 issue article…
submitted
I sent in an application today, for a position that is technically far from copacetic with an advanced English degree. What does make sense: I enjoyed the composing of the letter as a self-assigned writing exercise. After all these years of yoga, it is an unexpected turn of events, that I have managed to achieve…
Insight/Outfit of the Day 