Monthly Archives: August 2015

“First Faculty Meeting of the Year” by Lisa Nikolidakis

Posted on August 31, 2015 by jyourist

Andy Thomason , a writer at The Chronicle, is actually collecting images of this completed bingo card, originally posted on McSweeneys. After your first faculty meeting (if you are so inclined), send your image to andy.thomason@chronicle.com and follow up with … Continue reading →

Posted in Teaching | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

“For Sixty Cents” by Lydia Davis

Posted on August 30, 2015 by jyourist
Posted in story, writing | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

“Magdalene — The Seven Devils” by Marie Howe

Posted on August 29, 2015 by jyourist

“Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven devils had been cast out” —Luke 8:2. The first was that I was very busy. The second — I was different from you: whatever happened to you could
not happen to me, not like that. … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Summer Ensos

Posted on August 28, 2015 by jyourist
Posted in photography | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

She was an optimist

Posted on August 27, 2015 by jyourist

On our road trip to Bloomington Indiana this summer (ultimately to attend a wedding), I discovered this tombstone in a small cemetery, Dunn Cemetery, between the student union and the small Beck Chapel on the campus of Indiana University. It … Continue reading →

Posted in cemetery | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

“A Tale of Momentum and Inertia”

Posted on August 26, 2015 by jyourist
Posted in animation, short films, videos | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Katydid on the Kale

Posted on August 25, 2015 by jyourist

Ah, that proverbial sound of summer. You know what I mean. The katydids vibrating and clicking. Sometimes it is so much a part of the late summer soundscape that we don’t really notice it. It’s the white noise of summer. … Continue reading →

Posted in garden | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Bounty

Posted on August 23, 2015 by jyourist

This was harvested from our garden today. Several varieties of heirloom tomatoes, peppers, and lots of yukon potatoes. Tonight we ate some of this produce in our salad for dinner. Delicious. Actually, I have been gone for four days and … Continue reading →

Posted in aging, family, garden, relationship, transformation | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Les faits divers—Felix Feneon

Posted on August 17, 2015 by jyourist

Felix Feneon (1861-1944) was an intriguing figure in turn of the century France. He was an anarchist (arrested once for possibly detonating bombs), a journalist, an art critic (who actually discovered Seurat, coining the word Neoimpressionism and championing his art). … Continue reading →

Posted in writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Buddha’s footprint in Bloomington, Indiana

Posted on August 16, 2015 by jyourist

We just got back from an Indiana roadtrip initiated in part by a wedding we wanted to attend of the daughter of old friends who live there. We stretched the trip into a few extra days to vacation and explore, … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddha | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments