In order to give a gift, we must be empty. How can we take a form to give if we are not already empty. In order to receive a gift, we must too be empty. For how can we accept something if we are already filled? Osama Bin-Laden Killed by US Special Forces. Image courtesy of New York Times.

After 29 years in the United States, I find myself more American than I ever expected to be, yet not so American in many ways. Thursday, October 30, 2014. This flyer was sent home with the kids from school today. Saturday, May 24, 2014.

A Republic, if you can keep it. Martini Service on Tiger Helicopters. The Hook Brings You Back. When Nietzsche pronounced God dead. Tuesday, April 2, 2013. Friday, February 1, 2013. The Perfect Storm That Prompted the Potentially Frightful Fit of Pique and Inspired a New Blog. Writing waited, as it should.

Or some other related observation, be it serious or funny, in general. YOU ARE NOWHERE NEAR AS INSIGHTFUL OR CLEVER AS YOU THINK YOU ARE WHEN YOU . So many people do it.

Le cul entre les deux chaises. By le cul en rows. All month long, I was collecting ideas and storing away facts to share with you, so the content is in my brain, just not yet on a virtual page.

Wednesday, 16 February 2011. They have been around for decades and it is hard to imagine a world without them. Seeing many of the same things gave one a happy home-from-home experience.