Feeling My Feet Touch Familiar Soil

 I hope, unceasingly, for great music to be born.

The Spirit of (This) Man

I Am Free 

I make this statement in comparison to those who feel themselves handicapped by a college career.

The Walls Are Stuffed With Books

 I am a practitioner of bibliotherapy.  There is, indeed, a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read great fiction.

I believe much of mental illness can be tackled by the reading of many, many books.

It's great fun!

They arouse a person's mind; they make them alert and questioning.  Being surrounded by books will put some sense into your head. It's something every young bookseller ought to know.  

relapse into irresponsible freakishness

 It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

The Random Cluster of Sentient Carbon

When one views a stubborn fact from a new angle, it is amazing how all its contours and edges change shape.  If people believe in deities, then it is for psychological comfort.  From there, religion represents the order that people impose on the unruly world about them.

the talking head

 Do you know why people are on social media more now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the Trump presidency has made them realize that their country is ill. The people of this great nation were suffering from all sorts of mental fevers and aches and disorders, and never knew it. Now our mental pangs are only too manifest. We are all posting, Tweeting, reading, hungrily, hastily, trying to find out—while the trouble is present—what is the matter with our minds.

Delia Wasn't A Microbiologist

How easy/difficult is it to get COVID-19?

Is it like jumping from the Empire State building and landing on a passing unicorn?

Or is it more like a 19-mile radius of everything around me covered in a fine mist, and it's only the 56 times I wash my hands in a day that's protecting me?