“Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -And sore must be the storm -That could abash the little BirdThat kept[…]
Weassume that grades are a measure of mathematical promise. This is not a correct assumption, for many reasons. I used to worry that a student getting Bs in college math courses wouldn’t be successful in graduate school. But I’ve seen many now who have gotten their PhDs and have flourished as mathematicians.Grades are a[…]
Nell'estate del 1995 avevo 22 anni, ero molto triste e molto magro, e, tra le altre cose, leggevo avidamente fumetti della Marvel. Nei mesi estivi era uscito uno dei più lunghi crossover dell'epoca, l'Era di Apocalisse: Charles Xavier, fondatore degli X-Men, viene ucciso nel passato, gli X-Men come li conosciamo […]
Sono io, stravaccato alla fine della parte mobile della Route Nazionale […](...)For one thing, the Holy Family wasn’t white. For another, they weren’t rich. And they weren’t powerful. But there’s another reason I like this image, beyond the clever visual puns. It is, again, the invitation to see Jesus in the “least” of our brothers and sisters. So, when we see a family broken by war[…]
Thepondsby Mary Oliver (from “House of Lights”)Every yearthe liliesare so perfectI can hardly believetheir lapped light crowdingthe black,mid-summer ponds.Nobody could count all of them --the muskrats swimmingamong the pads and the grassescan reach outtheir muscular arms and touchonly so many, they are thatrife and wild.But what in this worldis perfect?I bend closer and[…]
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