Tag: inspiration
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The National Museum of the American Indian
Another day, another museum. After my experience yesterday in the National Gallery, I had quite a different experience today on the Mall. I went to the National Museum of the American Indian. I came to the museum skeptical. I took a class this summer on Native Americans that made me really disillusioned with the way…
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Reading Baudelaire While Grouchy
I’ve been feeling a little grouchy lately. Perhaps it was not wise, then, to read Baudelaire. Baudelaire, the French Romantic poet, was the writer of the spleen–intellectual 19th century France’s emo. Really though. For Baudelaire, le spleen was about expressing “profound boredom and weariness about existence” (my translation from the French wikipedia entry). Etymologically, the…
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Paris V: Une Exhibition
Today I went to a museum. We saw Robert Frank and Sophie Ristelhueber exhibits. We started with Robert Frank. There were two Robert Frank expositions, one of his influential book, The Americans and the other of his time in Paris during the après guerre. I spent a good amount of time in The Americans room.…
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How I felt on November 4th, 2008
I am writing this post partially as a diary post; I want to be able to look back on what I was thinking when Barack Obama was elected President: I started off the day by skipping two out of three of my classes to help organize and participate in our phone bank. We made over…
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My Ukulele, Happiness, God and Ethics
Those of you who know me well know I spend a lot of time thinking. A lot of this time thinking is spent thinking about how to make myself happy. Recently, I have found that I am a lot happier than I used to be. What happened? Why am I more happy now? To begin…
George Altshuler 