Josh Little is not a respected professor, researcher, or talking head. He recently did time in a Florida jail. The class paper he wrote for his community college English course teaches us that wisdom can come from many sources. Good luck Josh! You are on track.
"On January 6th, 2011, I was sentenced to 364 days in the Santa Rosa County Jail in Milton, Florida. To many, this probably seems like a punishment, but to me, jail saved my life..." To read more Download A Blessing in Disguise
On January 6th, 2011, I was sentenced to 364 days in the Santa Rosa County Jail in Milton, Florida. To many, this probably seems like a punishment, but to me, jail saved my life. I spent most of my teenage years getting in and out of trouble. I was always involved with the court system. I wasn’t a horrible kid. I was just raised in the rough part of the city growing up with parents who could hardly afford to pay bills.
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Aristides (Joseph Epstein) famiously intoned: "If there is nothing to read in heaven, I do not want to go there." Yeah. I can dig that. I suspect he would have enjoyed the Best 100 Books list from the NY Time which appeared in the Sunday, December 2010 NY Times: 100 Notable Books of 2010.
This is a great resource to remind one of what should not be missed. Not that anyone will want to read all of them -- but it is an aid to help your "soul to select its own Society."
For Joseph Epstein, Emily Dickenson, Yoshida Kenko -- all of us -- the Times list is a great resource.
"The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known." Yoshida Kenko (Essays in Idleness)
