Thoughts swimming in my head

haven't had much time to blog- but have written plenty of posts in my head. Here's what I would write if I could be more disciplined:

-Fanny Price ( of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park) versus Scarlett O'Hara (of MM's Gone with the Wind)- extreme selfishness versus extreme selflessness- who is the better heroine? They are opposite ends of a spectrum, but in the end, are they that different?

-Failure- my many failures and how it's changed me (and how it's a little too easy for me to pick myself up after a project has blown up in my face). humility, ambition, the path to success (true success) should be littered with failure. and not something to fear, yet we fear it so much. why?

-A response to the preface and first essay of Wendell Berry's Sex, Ecomony, Community & Freedom. Liked the first chapter. The preface is a little too 'angry man on a rant who is biting the hand that made him'


and other things.