Craigslist ad for a yoga mat

A friend posted a link to a Criagslist ad where somebody was selling a yoga mat. I thought it was funny. Like, really funny. (I’ve done the Bikram style yoga he’s referring to.) It occurred to me that, being an ad on Craigslist, it would have a limited...

Through a different lens

“My medium … is LIGHT!”, Frank declared, his face glowing with the kind of euphoria generally reserved for psychotics and fanatics. His brother, Todd, was unimpressed. “Of course it’s light. You’re a friggin’ photographer. No...

Tell me what I want to hear

Tell me what I want to hear and leave out painful truth. Whisper sweet into my ear and speak not tales of thorns and nails, or the approach of murderous feet, but call them now a lover’s treat, a gentle sweep through soft, sweet blades of grass. Look at me with...

Amen to that, brother…

Source: “Notes on Prejudice,” by Isaiah Berlin. The New York Review, October 18, 2001. ©The Isiah Berlin Literary Trust 2001. Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches)...