by Nathan Reed | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog, politics, Quotes - In and Out of Context
David Foster Wallace would have been 51 yesterday. So often we talk about how freedom empowers us — less often, we think about the obligations freedom conveys. I love this quote by Wallace: The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness,...
by Nathan Reed | Feb 13, 2013 | Blog, current news, Quotes - In and Out of Context, random interests
Hilary Mantel, one my favorite authors (she wrote Wolf Hall and Bringing Up the Bodies, and won the Booker Prize), wrote a long but interesting article for the London Review of Books. She discusses everything from Marie Antoinette, Kate Middleton, Henry VII, and more....
by Nathan Reed | Feb 12, 2013 | Blog, random interests, stories
[roundbox color=”000000″ backgroundcolor=”ae76f7″ bordercolor=”000000″ borderwidth=”1″ borderstyle=”none” icon=”” ]This blog post was originally published March 30, 2008.[/roundbox] He’s obviously...
by Nathan Reed | Feb 10, 2013 | Blog, random interests
Some things you learn too late in life. The word “forte” is actually two words, but we generally pronounce it the wrong way. You probably hear it pronounced ˈfȯr-tē (or “for-tay”). Unless you’re talking about a piano, you should pronounce...
by Nathan Reed | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog, church, current news, Quotes - In and Out of Context
From an amazing interesting article about one of Fred Phelps’s granddaughters who left Westboro Baptist Church: “My doubts started with a conversation I had with David Abitbol,” she says. Megan met David, an Israeli web developer who’s part of the team behind...
