There's a saying 'if you're good at something never do it for free'. But for me I always thought should not we practice it the other way? Should not it be 'if you're good at something try doing it for free' instead? I used to see your notes at the end of your writings and this portion touched me. I know a cool guy from my locality who i consider is among the best in terms of skills in his line, he's a software engineer. He used to say "If people need my help in any technology related problems i am ready to help. When you help people who are in need you don't lose anything, but instead you learn your skills better and you also get many benefits". He is always ready to help and teach others what they could have learnt and i always thought the world needs more people like him. Same thing came to my mind whenever i read your note. You provided the loveliest essay on the most beautiful poems and yet you are doing it for free. I think the world would be so much lovelier if more people like you exists or more people turn into a person like you and the cool guy i know of
I really enjoyed this one, Devin. Usually the newsletters of yours I like best are the ones where the poem itself kills me or grips me right up front. This one I found myself barely connecting to, until you convinced me otherwise. A lovely surprise!
Enchantment makes me remember pulling into our skinny carport on Sparkman Street seems a hundred years ago just as Downbound Train was ending, Springsteen’s gravelly voice a poem: “I heard that lone whistle whine. And I dropped to my knees, hung my head, and cried.” I burst into tears. But the song didn’t end there.
Thrilled to find Wang! “Can the re-enchantment of the world be an instrument that we use to shatter the realism of the prison?” She gives me new words for what I’m committed to: giving people a visceral experience that stokes the inner fire for a different world.
There are things we read, see, 'Like' move on having given a millisecond of our important life to. Then there are the articles that you offer, just one a week, that I often come back to, more than once in a week to absorb some more of the breathing space 'where enchantment dwells'.
There's a saying 'if you're good at something never do it for free'. But for me I always thought should not we practice it the other way? Should not it be 'if you're good at something try doing it for free' instead? I used to see your notes at the end of your writings and this portion touched me. I know a cool guy from my locality who i consider is among the best in terms of skills in his line, he's a software engineer. He used to say "If people need my help in any technology related problems i am ready to help. When you help people who are in need you don't lose anything, but instead you learn your skills better and you also get many benefits". He is always ready to help and teach others what they could have learnt and i always thought the world needs more people like him. Same thing came to my mind whenever i read your note. You provided the loveliest essay on the most beautiful poems and yet you are doing it for free. I think the world would be so much lovelier if more people like you exists or more people turn into a person like you and the cool guy i know of
I really enjoyed this one, Devin. Usually the newsletters of yours I like best are the ones where the poem itself kills me or grips me right up front. This one I found myself barely connecting to, until you convinced me otherwise. A lovely surprise!
Enchantment makes me remember pulling into our skinny carport on Sparkman Street seems a hundred years ago just as Downbound Train was ending, Springsteen’s gravelly voice a poem: “I heard that lone whistle whine. And I dropped to my knees, hung my head, and cried.” I burst into tears. But the song didn’t end there.
Thrilled to find Wang! “Can the re-enchantment of the world be an instrument that we use to shatter the realism of the prison?” She gives me new words for what I’m committed to: giving people a visceral experience that stokes the inner fire for a different world.
There are things we read, see, 'Like' move on having given a millisecond of our important life to. Then there are the articles that you offer, just one a week, that I often come back to, more than once in a week to absorb some more of the breathing space 'where enchantment dwells'.