Walter Briggs
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Walter Briggs
There are good ships and wood ships, and ships that sail the sea,
but the best ships are friendships,
and may they always be.
~ Irish Proverb Lubec, Maine
the inconvenience of convenience
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The business school exam story
Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.
William Shakespeare • The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Intentionality
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what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
from Peter Watts: "We're not thinking machines, we're feeling machines that happen to think."
OLD and new put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion and the color of the flake, Antiquity its form and properties. All things wear a lustre which is the gift of the present, and a tarnish of time.
I have thousands of photos of my children but few that I’ve set aside to revisit. I have records of virtually every text I’ve sent since I was in college but no idea how to find the ones that meant something. I spent years blasting my thoughts to millions of people on X and Facebook even as I fell behind on correspondence with dear friends. I have ... See more