A Japanese poet once wrote that there is no utility in metaphor, that in the modern world the only valuable expression is of words that are specific to one thing. This is language as the table of existential elements: when used precisely, words make an objective reality that we can use to breach the gaps between […]
Yesterday I flew from the east coast to Los Angeles and watched two movies that were uncanny in the similarity of their view of the human condition. The moral synchronicity was more startling for the cultural chasm between the two films: the uber-Wasp corporate reality of the Reitman brothers’ Up in the Air and the […]
D’s Communion One time when I was a young man I caught the scent of the priest Through the tannins of the communion wine. He smelled like my father On the morning that he buried my mother. I had just married. My new wife Kept two paces behind me In the communion line. Taking the host was […]
Weak people project weakness on everyone around them. Frightened people project fear on everyone around them. Strong people can’t understand what all the fuss is about.
via behance.net “The control of internal and external nature has been made the absolute purpose of life.“ The Dialectic of Enlightenment If we had a brain that was organized into Socratic functions, the tension between Nature and nature would be less conflicted… Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream
On late days one summer, I would walk through the rich heat to the small chapel in the sacristy in the rear of the church, off the corridor that joined the monastery and the church together. Bishop Ansgar would say Mass each afternoon: sepulchral, solemn, devout. What I can remember about those Masses was how […]