Whatever it is, it reminds me housework is as much meditation as anything else. It's a lovely frame for the rest of life -- disguised as a mindless, boring task that was always anything but.
I am often asked how students today differ from those of decades past. I don't have any profound answer born of years of observation, but one thing seems to stand out.
One minute you're walking down the aisle wearing a silk gown for a big ceremony, and the next you're being wheeled down the corridor wearing a paper gown for a colonoscopy.
New York artist Bobby Neel Adams sought to chronicle the passage of time in a visual manner. Adams called his resultant project Age Maps and says they...