If you would not be forgotten
\nas soon as you are dead and rotten,
\neither write things worth reading
\nor do things worth the writing.<\/p>\n
Benjamin Franklin<\/p>\n
This is simple. How can anyone not take this advice?\u00a0 Especially when there are two choices.<\/p>\n
I know of things worth reading that can’t be read, things written in French that non-French speakers are missing out on.\u00a0 I write those things.\u00a0 In English.<\/p>\n
And when not rewriting someone else’s things, I do things worth the writing (which must then, according to B. Franklin, be worth reading).\u00a0 Visiting France in its secret villages.\u00a0 Tutoring little kids, big kids, young and old adults, Italians, Swiss, Croatians, Chinese, Koreans, Australians.\u00a0 Redeeming my father through his war photos and poetry and paintings. Committing to a daily task of observing unusual things.<\/p>\n
You can do this.\u00a0 Don’t be forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing. Benjamin Franklin This is simple. How can anyone not take this advice?\u00a0 Especially when there are two choices. I know of things worth reading that can’t be read, things written … <\/p>\n