What makes something or someone an other? Otherness is the disposition to resist and insist, that is, to resist being…
The last few weekends with a friend I’ve been manning a voter registration table at a local farmer’s market. As…
The mundane world and the transcendent world consider separation. Munny: I know we go back a long way, but now…
The analogue of what it is that freshness is bringing into being in the transcendent realm is whatever is thriving…
What’s the connection between freshness and commonwealth? Where I live is a commonwealth, one of four in the country–Kentucky, Pennsylvania,…
Iconoclasm. A fear-inspiring counter-culture word. Who can forget the destructions of the iconoclastic civil wars of Constantinople or the Reformation?…
Walking this last weekend in the Allandale Woods, a new-to-me urban forest near my home, I came across this: A…
I ask myself if freshness as presented here is best approached through religion or spirituality. The answer: neither; freshness is…
It’s leaf-color-change time. Winter is ahead and the songs of spring have been silent for the last few months. But…
Visiting a small and unfamiliar city at the terminus of a rail trail became an engendering occasion as I ate…