February 2009
26 posts
Sic transit gloria mundi →
“Thus passes the glory of the world.” It has been interpreted as “Worldly things are fleeting.”
January 2009
8 posts
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do...”
– Steven Weinberg
“Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy...”
– Conclusion of Joseph Lowery’s benediction at the inauguration of Barack Obama.
An interpolation of Big Bill Broonzy’s “Black, Brown and White.”
Wabi-sabi →
represents a comprehensive Japanese world view centered on the acceptance of transience.
The beauty of imperfection.
(Also a song by Ellis Paul)
Peripeteia →
A sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances or situation especially in a literary work.
(from Mike Rowe’s TED Talk)
Anagnorisis →
The point in the plot especially of a tragedy at which the protagonist recognizes his or her or some other character’s true identity or discovers the true nature of his or her own situation.
(from Mike Rowe’s TED Talk)
“Martin Luther King didn’t get up there and say “I have a strategic...”
– Lou Holtz (from my Strategic Decision Making class)