Jessamyn WestA collection of 9 posts

Success

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by whic...

Learning

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Imagination

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Humor

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for ...

Future

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Forgiveness

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption...

Death

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the pas...

Communication

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and th...

Loneliness

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family friends and society are the natural e...