Six asides about Vaclav Havel
I. Culture forms chaotically from spirit. Havel begins his essay, or talk, “Six asides about Culture”…
An awakening
I have over the last two months been going through the program of creative recovery set…
Poetry: to redeem or to love the world?
Featured on aldaily.com today is an article from The Atlantic with the provocative title of “why…
Golden Arch
I was on my Sunday afternoon run a couple of weeks ago. It was a warm…
Donne’s sermons and the blogging tradition
Image Source: Oil Painting, John Donne (1573-1631), at the age of 49. Anon. British School, 1622. Victoria…
Belated
Another poem today from the collection I am curating, and have titled The Burning Archive. This…
The Tiger’s Eye closes for the last time
The great Australian historian or writer, Inga Clendinnen has died. Image Source: http://www.smh.com.au/national/people/warrior-of-the-mind-20140810-3dha8.html There is a moving…
The forest
This morning I have spent curating my collection of poems, The Burning Archive. From this collection,…
Political emotions
I am giving a paper at the end of this week at a seminar run by…
Fragments of fragments
This morning I started my reading by dipping into Harold Bloom on Ralph Waldo Emerson. In…