Monthly Archives: April 2011

Book Review — When The Cheering Stopped

I recently fin­ished read­ing When The Cheer­ing Stopped, an account of the last years of Woodrow Wil­son. This is the hard­cover edi­tion, pub­lished in 1964. K found it when going through some of her late father’s things and gave it to me since she knew I like his­tory books. Based on the inscrip­tion, it was …

April 26, 2011 – 10:22 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Book Review | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Physicality

Busque­mos la gran ale­gría del haber hecho (Let us seek the great hap­pi­ness of hav­ing done) — from Juan Ramon Jimenez’s Max­imus Recently, I read an excel­lent essay in Gar­den & Gun mag­a­zine on the cel­e­bra­tion of John Graves’ birth­day. In it, the author talks about Graves’ stoneworks at his ranch and his need to …

April 18, 2011 – 8:20 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Gardening, Philosophy | Comments (5)