America’s Coming Century of Humiliation… begins
A tragic sense of history does not limit the depth of the fall of the mighty…
The plague year
One year ago posted the post below on the likely effects of the coronavirus on our…
Three tankas on my garden
Over the last difficult year my garden has been a constant companion and a source of…
A revelation from Rumi
This morning I read some poems from Hafez (c 1315-1390) that celebrated love and wine and…
Ezra Pound, the unavowable fury of thy true heritage in fragments
The story of Ezra Pound’s mind cannot be told in plain and simple affirmations. Three twisted…
The persistence of the Mahabharata
One year ago I was about to fly to Bali, as it turned out in the…
Sponges, metamorphoses and psyche
In April 2017 I wrote the following post in an experiment, a form of improvised association…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat
In early 2017 I wrote a series of posts – or let us call them essays…
Sound and fury told by the American cultural “elite”
There are few funny stories to emerge from American politics over the last two months, especially…
The impeachment curse
The final forced impeachment of Donald Trump has ended in the result that should never happen…