“Nothing Special” Blog
The books that have taught me how to write have also taken me out on the road to speak. The speaking and writing have happily conspired to put me in contact with many terrific people, more than I can keep up with.
This blog is my attempt to be in contact while still protecting time with Barbara and the kids, some nourishing solitude, and time to write.
I am calling it “Nothing Special” because I have no illusions of having anything particularly profound to say. Days in a life and hunches about living, along with some excerpts from What Remains and Sailing Grace.
Awards for Sailing Grace
Best New Non-Fiction Book, National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist, Best Book Awards, USA Book News Winner, Michigan Notable Book Awards
Article about John
Blog Categories
DISHONESTY
A particularly disturbing form of intellectual dishonesty is to pretend that I do not know what I actually know because of what it asks of me.
SOMEBODY
“I always wanted to be somebody. I see now I should have been more specific.” -Lily Tomlin
FRESH EYES
“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploration Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time” TS Eliot
SILENCE
Spent a sunny afternoon with Thomas Merton at his hermitage in the Kentucky woods. He let silence do the talking.
