Seth Morgan currently lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee where he teaches a drug prevention class for middle-schoolers, tutors, elementary students and serves as Lay Missioner for Southside Abbey, an Epi
Growing up my heroes were martial. Flying aces, squadron commanders, generals,
fighter pilots. Sergeant York, General Patton, Ulysses S. Grant, Hannibal of
Carthage, Sun Tzu. The ones I dreamed about most flew planes,
They killed the dogs last night. Gunshots and panicked yelps then—for the first
time in two months—silence. Now I’m walking two blocks toward the river on the
way to the
> “The scaling down is unlimited. Like the tiny diatom shells whose markings,
however magnified, change almost indefinitely into new patterns, so each
particle of matter, ever smaller and smaller, under the physicist’
* In Thai, one word (tam), suffices for both “make” and “do.” The same is true
for the Tajik kardan and the Spanish hacer. English is the only language I’ve
yet learned that
If there is an Oscar for the category, “best glorification of the life of the
mind” then Hannah Arendt deserves it. Rarely have the classroom and the writing
desk glowed with more fervor
