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  • Santa Maria dei Miracoli

    [Santa Maria dei Miracoli] …known as the “marble church”… is one of the best examples of the early Venetian Renaissance including colored marble, a false colonnade on the exterior walls (pilasters), and a semicircular pediment… Built between 1481 and 1489 by… Continue reading

    Santa Maria dei Miracoli
  • Food Friends Family Faith–A Lost Dream

    Wonderful little article that reminds us that the American Dream once centered on working less and having the leisure to enjoy the things that actually matter: among them, food, friends, family, and faith. Now that lost dream shows the foresight… Continue reading

    Food Friends Family Faith–A Lost Dream
  • My Man Godfrey

    An awesome little film with one of my favorite actors of the 1930’s, William Powell, and the beautiful Carole Lombard. Directed by Gregory LaCava. This is definitely a great way to spend part of your Sunday after you get back… Continue reading

    My Man Godfrey
  • Playfulness: the Point of Existence

    “A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil “To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that… Continue reading

    Playfulness: the Point of Existence
  • Tears of Joy in my Life

    When tears begin to flow in the moment of an ecstatic joy, I find an awareness of just how much the body–with all its pains and perturbations–is the necessary crossroads of possible Transcendenz. The feel of my gut contacting, my… Continue reading

    Tears of Joy in my Life
  • It’s a hard world for little things

    Robert Mitchum terrorizes an orphanage defended by the faith and the gun of Ms. Lillian Gish in Charles Laughton’s brilliant, if often misunderstood, film Night of the Hunter.  Continue reading

    It’s a hard world for little things
  • Feel like shouting!

    So much hatred and dread in this old world. So much love and joy. All is flowing… all this beauty and happiness punctuated with this every day struggle and frustration. To be in this wonderful flowing reality and not let… Continue reading

    Feel like shouting!
  • Textimony 20140208

    To say that we are on the ONE WAY is not to say there is only a single way. Get to it, now… EXPLORE!!! Continue reading

    Textimony 20140208
  • Becoming the Vessel | The Ptero Card

    An informative piece from Ptero9 that reminds me how much philosophizing requires going to the margins or as Jaspers would call it, the boundary situations, where we engage in the loving struggle with others who are also attempting self-actualization. So,… Continue reading

    Becoming the Vessel | The Ptero Card