There’s something new under the sun … every day. Each and every one of us is a creator. It’s in our nature. When we create something, whether it’s a painting or a poem or a store display or a legal brief, we give something of ourselves that did not exist before we gave it. PicassoContinue reading “Great artists steal, but it’s not theft”
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The assassination of Margaret Thatcher
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains general discussion of the fourth season of the television series The Crown, which debuted last week. If you like to watch a program without knowing what happens, come back at a later date after viewing the show. This Brittanica article describes Margaret Thatcher as “The only British prime minister toContinue reading “The assassination of Margaret Thatcher”
Here’s how it will be when the dust settles
Oh, we go through this in cycles, every four years. Such a fuss, such a lather, and in a few months there’ll be the same old realization that “the most important election of our time” produced yet another dose of “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” Oh, there’ll be some cosmetic differences,Continue reading “Here’s how it will be when the dust settles”
A New Dream All Its Own
“Smile … Though there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by.” “You got to have a dream — If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?” What do you dream, friend? I’ve been having a dream of folks talking to one another like friends, and being interested inContinue reading “A New Dream All Its Own”
I wrestle my Self-Editing Inner Critic to the carpet
“A-HA!!!” Oh, it’s you, Self-Editing Inner Critic. Mind if I call you SEIC? “Call me anything you like, loser.” Oh, there ya go again. Why am I a loser NOW?
Turns out the key really is to just do it
This is the 101st day of my 92-day challenge. Back at the end of July, to celebrate my finally getting an independent host for WarrenBluhm.com, I committed to writing a blog post every day in August, September, and October, or 92 consecutive days. I don’t believe I’ve ever managed that. Turns out it’s as easyContinue reading “Turns out the key really is to just do it”
Choose how you react
“Choose to have the right attitude, and you choose success,” Scott Alexander wrote the other day. It’s an oft-repeated thought: You can’t control what happens sometimes, but you always can control how you react. Not that it’s easy — what happens can be infuriating or heartbreaking or unintentionally funny, and your first impulse may beContinue reading “Choose how you react”
The world’s greatest comic magazine
Marvel Comics traces its history to just before World War II, but its modern era, the one that spawned almost all of the heroes in its popular series of superhero movies, began in late 1961 with the release of the Fantastic Four. They apparently realized they had started something special, because on the cover ofContinue reading “The world’s greatest comic magazine”
When turmoil is not
The household — two humans, two canines and a feline — has not begun to stir except for the stirrings of my crazy brain. There, there is turmoil — No, there’s not! You’re in a contented and peaceful place.
The ones who remember
Continuing musings from the conclusion of Fahrenheit 451 … Post-apocalyptic literature assumes that a cataclysm of some kind is the inevitable climax to dystopia — but catastrophe is always avoidable, until it isn’t. A series of choices makes the situation worse and worse until Big Brother micromanages lives (Nineteen Eighty-Four) or the populace lives inContinue reading “The ones who remember”
