Five Poems, Five Passages
Ezra Pound and Marcella Spann, ed. From Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry New Directions, 1964 Guido Calvacanti, Sonnet 7 Saint Teresa d’Avila, Bookmark Elizabeth I, When I Was Fair and Young William Butler…
Finding One’s Lost Mind
Julia Ching, The Philosophical Letters of Wang Yang-ming University of South Carolina Press, 1972 I previously studied with delight Julia Ching’s To Acquire Wisdom: The Way of Wang Yang-ming. Wang was the towering philosophical figure…
Share the Wealth with J’Ann Allen–Entrusted with Poetry: From the Land of the Morning Calm
Sometime in early January I pulled out my collection of Korean poetry in translation and began reading, skimming is a more accurate description. Our granddaughter Michelle, three-fourths Korean, told me she wanted to take a…
Share the Wealth Sunday 31 March: Three Vietnamese Voices
In 2012 President Barack Obama In 2012 President Barack Obama signed on to a Congressionally approved on-going 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, for each year of the war’s duration. We are currently commemorating 1969….
Share the Wealth Sunday 31 March: Three Vietnamese Voices
In 2012 President Barack Obama In 2012 President Barack Obama signed on to a Congressionally approved on-going 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, for each year of the war’s duration. We are currently commemorating 1969….
Share the Wealth with Andrew Wimmer: “Where Can I Invest My Life?”
As a young graduate student, I had the good fortune to be exposed to the thinking of Bernard Lonergan. Lonergan, who died in the mid-eighties, was a Canadian Jesuit philosopher and theologian. Many of my…
Seventeen Quotations from Glenn Gould in Kevin Bazzana’s Wondrous Strange
“Dying was a great career move for him.” —Kevin Bazzana, Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould “I gather my inner resources from the outdoors.” “Behind every silver lining there’s a…
Twenty-Eight Cullings on Glenn Gould from Kevin Bazzana’s Wondrous Strange–The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
I believe in God—Bach’s God. Glenn Gould Stayed out of the public eye, maintained his presence through a conspicuous absence. 9 Gould’s personality has certainly fueled his posthumous appeal. His eccentricity made him fascinating,…
The Spirituality of Photography by Cami Kasmerchak
Cami gave me permission to share this essay. I remember first becoming interested in photography a little over 10 years ago. At first, photography was simply a way to capture moments of family and friends,…
“Speaking Truth to Power Makes No Sense”
Noam Chomsky, The Common Good [1998] Brandon, I first read this collection of interviews between Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian twenty years ago. The interviews were from the second half of the nineties, the Clinton…