Foolish Sage | December 3, 2009
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book just about took my breath away. Haunting, disturbing, unsettling…yet so beautifully written I often found myself stopping after a particular passage or even a sentence and marveling that such a thing had come from human pen. It’s a good thing the story [...]
Foolish Sage | December 2, 2009
The Brothers Karamazov is my bathroom reading right now (whatever I have on the Stanza e-reader app on my iPhone). Some of you know that I’m having a colonoscopy this afternoon, so have been on two days of fasting and laxative bombs. Just throwing that in to let you know I’ve had a lot of [...]
Foolish Sage | November 30, 2009
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
Barabara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Foolish Sage | November 6, 2009
Thought it was a good time for something a little lighter here…
Although my wonder years were all over the Midwest, I’ve always called New Jersey (or just “Jersey” to us natives) as my home state. It’s the place where I went through my adolesence and met my sweet wife.
In a fit of sudden nostalgia for [...]
Foolish Sage | November 4, 2009
The web has book review blogs by the score, but every so often one comes along that promises to be something special and different. Welcome The Discarded Image.
From the “About” page: “This blog is an exploration of my changing model and those images which I have discarded, for good or bad (that will be a [...]
Foolish Sage | November 3, 2009
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better.
- J. K. Rowling (http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html – quoted in Harry Potter and Imagination: The Way Between Worlds by Travis Prinzi, p. iv.)
Foolish Sage | November 2, 2009
Exultation is the going
Of an island soul to sea,
Past the houses–
Past the headlands–into deep Eternity–
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?
- Emily Dickinson
Foolish Sage | October 31, 2009
Doctor, you say there are no halos
around the streetlights in Paris
and what I see is an aberration
caused by old age, an affliction.
I tell you it has taken me all my life
to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
to soften and blur and finally banish
the edges you regret I don’t see,
to learn that the [...]
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Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of resurrections and that which is already (but not yet). Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and currently freelances as an Internet marketer.
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