On democracy (from 2019)

As I wrote in 2019...

I am very sorry for my friends in Brazil. It is hard not to despair. 

Jobs I have done

Here are all the jobs I have had, but only including those for which I received compensation or official designation. Sometimes I even managed a working wage. 

This is why I've had a hard time being middle class. Though my "standing" has supported that label, the amount of labour I've performed merely to survive has me thinking that I am "working". 

l'esprit de l'escalier

Being a collection of nonsense culled from everyday experience.

Fields have eyes but woods have ears.

As metaphors go, it doesn't hold a candle to the light fantastic at the end of the tunnel.

I may not be able to describe the processes in the heart of the sun, but I can still be warmed in its light.

Everything is a cynosure if you look the other way.