Robby Hume – Page 2 – Constant Questions, Occasional Answers

Robby2018-08-10T16:46:10-04:008 March 2016|Reading|

"I hate a Roman named Status Quo!" he said to me. "Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass." Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

On Poetry The Irony of Abandonment

Robby2019-02-17T17:11:34-05:007 March 2016|Reading|

While most of my reading time is spent on novels, I always enjoy finding and reading good poetry. Poetry is a unique form of art; it distills emotions and experiences into a compact form. Poems are the most musical collections of words in our language – an amalgam of letters that fiddle with rhyme, rhythm, and meter in search of the perfect balance of sound and meaning. In late 2013, probably cleaning for some inspection at West Point, I leafed through a black leather Moleskine journal on my bookshelf. I hadn't written in the journal in almost a year... I tend to get easily distracted from one project, going off in [...]