Calming Sunday Music

David Foster Wallace – Enslavement and Lucid Thoughts

“That feeling of having to obey every impulse and gratify every desire seems to me to be a strange kind of slavery. Nobody talks about it as such, though.”   If you’re familiar with his work, you know that David Foster Wallace was exceptionally and almost painfully aware of the finer details of both himself […]

A Serious Man

What could make a professional basketball player return a six-figure sum to his team in midseason? Ask former University of Pennsylvania star Ibby Jaaber. A story of devout faith. Check it out — here.

Swinging at the tree house in Baños, Ecuador

World’s Largest Building Opens

Located in Chengdu (population 14 million), capital of Sichuan province in southwestern China, the New Century Global Center is the “largest freestanding building in the world,” Chinese officials say. http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/01/travel/china-largest-building-chengdu/index.html