Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
The interviewee's second memoir uses baseball as a metaphor for life's journey, exploring themes of middle age, marriage, fatherhood, and failure. He also discusses depression and the importance of celebrating life.
In baseball, The Fifth Ending can represent a complete game. The structure of this book consists of balls and strikes. Balls and strikes can also stand for BS. How much is thrown at a person by the ti...
— Episode: E. Ethelbert Miller — Black and Universa...
Episode: E. Ethelbert Miller — Black and Universal
The interviewee's second memoir uses baseball as a metaphor for life's journey, exploring themes of middle age, marriage, fatherhood, and failure. He also discusses depression and the importance of celebrating life.
In baseball, The Fifth Ending can represent a complete game. The structure of this book consists of balls and strikes. Balls and strikes can also stand for BS. How much is thrown at a person by the time they reach 50? When BS becomes just B, it might represent not balls but the blues. The blues seem as departure and loss. The B also stands for blackness, perhaps the essence of the blues.
what is poetry, but that which we feel most deeply. What is poetry? But that which tells our soul to sing.