Posts Tagged “writing”

“We do not deal with one another as soul to soul”

by JS on March 18, 2012

From Marilynne Robinson’s Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred: Simultaneously, and in a time of supposed religious revival, and among those especially inclined to feel religiously revived, we have a society increasingly defined by economics, and an economics increasingly reminiscent (…)

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“real life is only one kind of life”

by JS on February 11, 2012

Are my stories true, you ask? No, they are imaginary tales, containing fantastic characters and events. In real life, a family doesn’t have a child who looks like a mouse; in real life, a spider doesn’t spin words in her (…)

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Everyone has unrealistic dreams of heroic success, right?

by JS on November 23, 2010

“Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of (…)

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