St. Thomas Aquinas: “The Dumb Ox," by G.K. Chesterton
A Micro-Review/Essay
Books
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, by George Gissing
A Micro-Review Essay
The World of the Polis, by Eric Voegelin
A Micro-Review/Essay
Plato and Aristotle, by Eric Voegelin
A Micro-Review/Essay
Leisure, the Basis of Culture, by Josef Pieper
A Micro-Review/Essay
Enemies of the Permanent Things, by Russell Kirk
A Micro-Review Essay
An Anthology, by Josef Pieper
A Micro-Review/Essay
“The possibility of incurring guilt is the ultimate existential threat for every person.”
There are some authors who make you think, “I could just read this guy for the rest of my life. He’d bring me to greater and greater levels of wisdom and understanding.” Pieper
Mystics and Zen Masters, by Thomas Merton
A Micro-Review/Essay
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
A Micro-Review/Essay
“We’ve finally got to heaven. It couldn’t be cooler, it couldn’t be grander, it couldn’t be anything.”
The elves of Middle Earth longed for the sea, even if they didn’t know it. A wood elf might spend his entire eviternal existence without
How to Write for Surfer Dudes
I spent last summer, taking digital essay lessons. They were part of a series that I call, “Learning to Write for Morons,” by Medium.com.
I learned a lot, but I can condense the lessons into one premise: If you're writing online articles, you have a split second