"When everything else has gone from my brain ... what will be left, I believe, is topology: the dreaming memory of land as it lay this way and that." Annie Dillard
On Monday, for instance, I spent the better part of an hour learning about the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi and his suite Ancient Airs and Dances.
Other days I've plunged into the history of long-shot Kentucky Derby winners or the geopolitics of the Iron Curtain.
What do these topics have in common? Absolutely nothing ... except that, for a few moments in the morning, I had time to learn about them.
posted by Anne Cassidy at
8:20 AM
I’m a writer and editor, the author of "Parents Who Think Too Much" and a freelancer published everywhere from the "New York Times" to "Woman’s Day." I’ve been scribbling my thoughts in one tattered notebook or another for most of my life, but this blog is the first time I’ve gone public. I'm glad you've landed here, and I hope you visit often.
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