The Paradoxical Commandments
The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior […]
Do What Is Right
I have no desire to be a politician. I don’t want to lead anyone. I have no practical ego. I am not […]
A Word Has Power
A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into meaning. It gives origin to all things. By means […]
1,209 Years
From IFL Science, 30 March 2021 One of Japan’s most celebrated natural spectacles has reached a grim milestone this year, arriving at […]
Ars Poetica
Poetry originated in the beginning: in the creation myths and tribal lore, song, dance and religion that are fundamental to life and […]
All Technologies
All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent. David Brower ❏
Songbird Without A Song
What’s a songbird without its song? Sadly, we are finding out. Australian regent honeyeaters are failing to learn their species’ tune due […]
Life Is Not A Walk Across A Field
“Do not touch this cloud-dweller”Josef Stalin, upon seeing Pasternak’s name in an arrest dossier Hamlet by Boris Pasternak, trans. Ann Pasternak Slater […]
A Work That Aspires
A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. Joseph Conrad ❏
Poetry On Its Deathbed
Poetry turned into a sort of Freudian stand up comedy or tragi-comedy. It got too self-promotional and introspective and lost the muse. Poetry […]