I love Proverbs 9 where we read: "Wisdom has built her house; she has carved its seven columns.
Second, that while we codify and exalt taste, following artistic fashions with pious devotion and reading runic wisdom into pop culture fads, there is often something whimsical about the arbiter's process.
In thinking about wisdom, it helps to read about wisdom — about Solomon or Socrates or whomever.
They need to read for wisdom.
"If you noticed in the debates, he took these long pauses, which some people, I'm sure, read as wisdom," Mr. Ferrell said.
Thus, a two-page spread in the insert features Alexandra Wilkis Wilson and Alexis Maybank, co-founders of Gilt Groupe, the online retailer; copy on their photo reads, "The wisdom of elevationism — bonfires and Bellinis: mix responsibly".
For two years, Ms. Ma has used her round trips from Queens to the garment district, where she spends long days applying intricate beading to clothing by hand, to read "The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra," a six-volume Buddhist literary masterpiece.
Read more wisdom, or nonsense, from Alan Black at The Header.
Reading Shakespeare, the Greeks, and the classics; reading for life-wisdom, nourishment, guidance and growth; reading to save one's soul and to make sense of oneself and the enigma of life -- this kind of reading rarely exists anymore.
