A life in words

  • What Will Become?

    So there’s this girl who thinks she’s no good because she’s like me and you you know she makes mistakes does not nice things does good things for wrong reasons in other words she’s amazing, just not perfect I wish she could see wish she could feel wish that she would stop hurting herself but…

  • Dinner on 19 October 2009

    Tonight for my dinner group I cooked an assortment of dishes: 1. Greek-inspired beef. I bought several pounds of roast for something like 5 dollars, sliced it into long strips, and cooked it along with fresh parsley, tomatoes, fresh spinach, red wine vinegar, soy sauce, tomato paste, a little bit of hot hungarian paprika (which…

  • Real, or Ideal? OR What To Name A Post When No Cohesive Theme Binds It Together

    1. Academia Last night I went to the “Evening for New Graduate Students” at BYU (which was actually secretly or not-so-secretly open to all graduate students—note for next year 🙂 ). President Samuelson spoke first. During that short talk and during his devotional address on Tuesday, I had the feeling that I have really undervalued…

Of a commonwealth, whose subjects are but hindered by terror from taking arms, it should rather be said, that it is free from war, than that it has peace. For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character….Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus V.4, 1670, trans. A. H. Gosset 1883