Charley Norkus's Blog – December 2009 Archive (2)

I can’t shake it – I don’t want to do it because it’s too just big to do – I can’t get my arms around it, and I’ll be too old and tired and dead before I can accomplish what needs to be accomplished… but I can’t shake it. I am too small and the work is too huge that needs to be done, but dammit, somebody out there has already started it, and I can at least help move things along a bit, but … it’s big. It’s bureaucracy, it’s tradition, it’s hundreds if not thousands of people’s work… and it’s… Continue

“You may forget but



Let me tell you

this: someone in

some future time

will think of us.”



- Sappho, 6th cent.BC





As a student, I have always taken pride in my writing ability, and before starting this class, I had assumed that it would be no different – wherever my lack of discipline had gotten the better of me so that it was the eleventh hour before beginning my assignments for the week, there was no fear: my writing would save the day. The… Continue