Verse—whether spoken or sung— appears to be deeply encoded in the human brain. Cursing, singing lyrics, and reciting poetry are understood as instances of automatic speech, as distinguished from propositional speech…. that constitutes most everyday conversation. –Oliver Sacks Today I attended the April Verch concert in Long Grove. The Long Grove Arts and Music…
To think the thought of weaponized Nature is to entertain dissonance of heretofore contradictory ideas. Nature is conceived as the totality of a life supporting, living context that common sense tells us that we are a part. A weapon is a human artifact created for the purpose of taking life. For humans life is…
June 1, 2017 the President of the United States withdraws from the Paris Accord on Climate Change. The rise in sea level accelerates. The ice pack at both poles melts at an increasing rate. Weather events increase in severity. Species extinction continues. Hotter more acidic oceans. Famine. Forests succumb to drought and disease. I…
It is not time, but fibroblasts or the spirit of forgiveness, that heal wounds. And perhaps we need to row back from the idea of “time” as generally “permissive” of change. Many things are not permitted…….. What’s more, a global permissiveness would permit nothing in particular: If everything were permitted, nothing could happen. –Raymond…
Sun’s-day Moon-day Tiw’s-day Woden’s-day Thor’s-day Frig’s-day Saturn’s-day Thunor, god of thunder and Frig, goddess of growing things and fertility…. Perhaps it is both human and wise, like King Redwald, to keep in favor with both sides. Two altars were constructed side by side. At one altar the king partook of bread and wine, “the…
WANTING TO LIVE ACCORDING TO NATURE So, you want to live according to nature? Imagine a being like nature: Wasteful beyond measure, Indifferent beyond measure Without purposes and consideration, Without mercy and justice, Fertile and desolate and uncertain at the same time; Imagine indifference itself as a power—– How could you live according to…
Yes, it’s a long tune, at 5 minutes. Did you notice the organ track, the musical pattern that opens and runs the entire length of the piece? Townsend was influenced by the philosophy of Meher Baba, Inayat Kahn, and composer Terry Riley. Townsend sought to replicate a theory of reality as harmonious, with the…
…..if it worries and torments you to think of your childhood, and of that simplicity and quiet, because you cannot believe any more in God.…then what justifies you in missing him, who never was? Why do you not think of him as the coming one, imminent from all eternity, the future one, the final…
GLOBALIZATION describes the opening decades of the 21st century. Countries and cultures are bound together by light speed communication disrupting old boundaries and ways of life. I think about this a lot. Can we conceive a way forward, a productive support for a humanly productive humanity,—avoiding the cul de sac of exploitation? Are we…
