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  • Seneca and Existenz Part 2

    Second part of my considerations comparing/contrasting Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life with philosophers of existence… in this episode, more specifically with five figures I consider poets of existence: Walt Whitman, Rainer Maria Rilke, André Gide, Emily Dickinson, and Virginia… Continue reading

    Seneca and Existenz Part 2

  • Jazz Theorbo

    My beautiful sibling Dušan Ballarin (University of North Texas, Indiana University, Juilliard) is one of a very few who study Renaissance/Baroque music who could pull off showing up at the Cloisters to accompany the peerless Cécille McLorin Salvant on his… Continue reading

    Jazz Theorbo

  • Encompassing – Bright Truth – Wonderful

    This is a song that I started singing a few days before my dissertation defense as I walked around my neighborhood in the early morning. I think the tune goes back to when I was in the Seminary? I know… Continue reading

  • APHORISM 02 OCT 2023

    Uncertainty has three profiles: DREAD FINITIUDE BOREDOM Continue reading

    APHORISM 02 OCT 2023

  • The things to work out in family history

    There is a great deal that every person must do to struggle against the holdovers of diverse bigotry’s in our social structures. However, we must also grapple with the familial history that each of us has, which contains sometimes egregious… Continue reading

  • Unionized Auto Workers Are Taking on a Three-Headed Behemoth of Big Capital | Truthout

    …there’s another sense in which the UAW’s fight is everyone else’s fight. In taking on the Big Three automakers, auto workers are quite literally confronting a three-headed behemoth whose leadership and governance are closely embedded and directly interlocked within a… Continue reading

  • APHORISM 16July2023

    What good is a chance if you do NOT take it? Do you think opportunities just lie about waiting for when you feel ready? No! The opportune time is a moment of recognition: The weird winds of life have blown… Continue reading

    APHORISM 16July2023

  • The Devil and Thomas Jefferson

    America is ruled by Mammon wearing the skin of Christian Nationalist Jesus. But that doesn’t mean all hope is lost… Continue reading

    The Devil and Thomas Jefferson