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June 8, 2009
If there is a future wave of wellness on this planet, of harmony, of
peace, of an end to war, of mutual understanding, of equality, of
fairness, I don't expect it will come from a government, a military force
or a corporation. I no longer even expect it to come from the religions of
the world, which together seem to have brought us as much war as they have
peace. If there is a future of peace for humankind, if there is to be an
understanding of how these invisible, internal things should fit together,
I expect it will come from the artists, because that's what we do.
- Karl Paulnack, pianist and director of the music division at Boston
Conservatory
June 3, 2009
I was asked by the
Howard Center - a social services
organization in Burlington - to deliver the keynote address at their
annual fundraiser tonight. For those of you who can't make it,
here it is!
May 19, 2009
My remarkable
friend Philip Baruth delivered a mind-blowing, heart-shattering keynote
address at the New England Young Writer's Conference over the weekend.
To read what you Should Not Miss, click
here.
May 7, 2009
After months of
doodling around, I'm happy to premiere my new website! I hope it
works! I'm sure it'll take a while to shake down all the bugs, so
let me know if you find a missing link or a messy spot.
January
19, 2009
I
decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is
immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has
clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the
last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more
sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to
accept this.
I
believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal,
not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but
because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and
endurance.
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his
privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the
courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice
which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be
the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him
endure and prevail.
- William
Faulkner
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