There’s a kind of conversation that thrills me, leaves me glowing, stimulates my best thoughts, an interchange that fills up…
There’s a scene in Mozart’s Don Giovanni highlighting the challenge that lying, hiding and pretending represent to our need, individually…
I woke this morning in dread. Politics, the environment, whatever: my heart was heavy with dire foreboding and preemptive grief.…
Who’s invited to the party? The birthday? The coming out? New Year’s Eve? The tired-of-lockdown party? I’m talking about encounters.…
The trickster character common in world mythology has its counterpart in that kind of person who is today deliberately shaking…
What happens when a people lose faith in their civilization? How can their faith be restored? What, first of all,…
When is work, not work? Consider the second chapter of the book of Genesis. There’s the work of making the…
One of the reasons we despise play is because it is cost and risk free while the mundane world is…
One of the reasons we love play is that it takes orders only from itself. Make-believe and world-building and all…
We may feel that we are locked in an apocalyptic battle for the future, a titanic struggle of good versus…