A song to skip to
A charming ditty I found in Mary Webb's engaging novel. I wondered if she was quoting a rhyme or song...
Leadership as multi-tasking
You get to steer the ship because you can handle multiple tasks at once. Here, John demonstrates his leadership skills:...
Humankind in one man
A thoughtful comment by Saint-Exupéry, whose slim Flight to Arras is packed with insights into the nature of civilization, peace,...
Ripening writing
In this comment on Zbigniew Herbert's Report from the Besieged City (title of both a poem and a poetry collection),...
Find something to do
The great god Odin has a friendly chat with the elves, challenging their pat responses to his questions. In the...
This is the world
Keats was one of the most life-loving people you could hope to meet, grasping with all his force every chance...
Who needs maps?
Here is a long winded anecdote, no doubt embellished in the re-telling, which you can stash away in your own...
Most reprehensible
This charming exchange is from a favourite children's book, discovered and devoured when already a so-called grown up.
I liked...
Yours to win, not lose
These racing monosyllables have the pace and certainty of one who runs, and lives, as if he can only win. I...
As fabulous as …
A marvelously original simile for 'fabulous', found in this slim, exquisitely written book by Saint-Exupery. Something resonant in that phrase,...
How to hide a poem (II)
Listening time: under 5 minutes.  This disturbing quotation is striking on several levels.  By the Hungarian poet György Faludy concerning...
First encounter
A first meeting between lovers comes less as an encounter with a stranger than a recognition of someone you've been...
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