Continue Reading Geopolitical Primer In January 2020 I wrote about my foreboding regarding a recently emerged virus no-one had ever heard of. Maybe my sense of…
Continue Reading Reinterpretations Sometimes I find myself fascinated by ideas that artists have without necessarily liking what they do with them. Or, perhaps more precisely,…
Continue Reading The Clock is Ticking What better way to distract oneself from pandemic woes than reading or watching tales of apocalyptic destruction? I mean, psychological gains from…
Continue Reading Wanderlust Essential Meaning of Wanderlust: a strong desire to travel. Full Definition of Wanderlust: strong longing for or impulse toward wandering. – Merriam Webster If you…
Continue Reading New Year’s Resolutions. 2022. Welcome to a glut of grim as NYT editorialist Frank Bruni put it so aptly a few days ago. Let’s ignore…
Continue Reading This Season’s Gift In true appreciation of your continued reading, encouragement and critical interaction my gift to you for the holidays is: No politics today. No social…
Continue Reading Hunger When I was young and impressionable I had to read a book titled Hunger by Knut Hamsun. Why they would serve us…
Continue Reading Moving along I skimmed two unusual books across the last weeks. Skimmed because I could not read 700 pages for one and who knows…
Continue Reading Reminder If you happen to get hectic around holiday preparations, desperately scrambling for gifts, trying to figure out how to maneuver family gatherings…
Continue Reading Hope is a discipline Hope doesn’t preclude feeling sadness or fear or anger or any other emotion that makes total sense. Hope isn’t an emotion, you…
