Works In Progress

"The artist is not a special kind of man,
but every man is a special kind of artist."

- A. K. Coomaraswamy

The unexamined life is not worth living
Socrates

 

 

 

Searching in Life
Alan Walker and Pat Shipman,
The Wisdom of Bones: In Search of Human Origins.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

A Man Impossible to Classify

The Question of Listening

Michael P. Nichols, The Lost Art of Listening.
New York: The Guilford Press, 1995.

Jacob Needleman, Why Can’t We Be Good?
New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2007.

Smokey Wilson, “What About Rose?”:
Using Teacher Research to Reverse School Failure.

New York: Teachers College Press, 2007.

A Life Worth Examining:
a review of A Time To Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
"Patrick Fermor was one of those rare men who make a mark at everything they put their hand to."

Living a Life
Daniel Gottlieb, Letters to Sam.
New York: Sterling Publishing, 2006

The Riddle of Craft By David Orth
"The secret, enduring purpose of craft is to disturb our sleep with an elegant riddle."

 

 

 

 

Photo Credit:
Creel Basket by Hiroshima Kazuo
National Museum of Natural History

 

 


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