Walking in the late evening with the sun still high we formed a kind of huckleberry party, you and I. Our choice of route dictated by access to berries. Rasberries planted on borders up against…
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Part I–This American Life On Animal Sacrifice
I am a casual listener of This American Life. When our family of four drives to and fro to relatives’ homes we will listen to it along with Radiolab. These are “family friendly” podcasts normally…
Our Surround: A Final Word
A final word here. Power proceeds to find force unnecessary and counterproductive. This turns out to be the end of that great experiment called America; the democratic ideal its philosophy; industrial consumption its means. Power…
Circle and Sway: Reading Williams’ “Flowers by the Sea”
At times the spirit moves one to attempt an explication of a poem, particularly a small one, and a famous one, because one can both grasp the whole and also be somewhat certain of the…
What Else the Fools
]lecturing[ a small fish told him to conceal the common family as found describe the look but something about it By this \ science on the narrow suspend a vacuum the Alps there to say…
Without Reflection
A well-known line from a well-known poem by W. H. Auden is “…poetry makes nothing happen.” It comes in section two of “In Memory of W. B Healthy elderly subjects (65-81 years) showed a statistically…
Clubbing with Consonant Prejudice
Goosey Goosey Gander, whither shall I wander? Upstairs and downstairs and in my Lady’s chamber. There I met an old man who wouldn’t say his prayers, So I took him by his left leg and…
Against the Real Creationists
I just finished reading “The New Synthetic Biology: Who Gains?” by Richard Lewontin in the New York Review of Books. I believe this article makes clear that there are tremendous amounts of insight and ingenuity…
Neither Men Nor Toadstools
AUDIO: Neither Men Nor Toadstools I’m inclined to think “teaching” and “instruction” in institutional contexts are only misguided industrial practice. The best that can be done (and one might admit it’s not nothing though suspect) is…
To Act, or Not to Act
The final section (XII) of Harold Goddard’s essay on Coriolanus found in his brilliant book The Meaning of Shakespeare screws a brilliant reading to the sticking place (to steal a line from Lady M.) compressed cellulose,…