“We value our solitude until it pinches,” writes Edward Hoagland in the spring issue of The American Scholar magazine. His essay “On Loneliness” ruminates on the ways we choose – and need – to live both in community and in solitude. A few things he said really got my attention: “We sculpt our lives in a free country, and our faces often show it: waffler, proud …
April 30, 2014
by jenniferpuryear