Social darwinism is a ultimately a dyadic worldview: one (me or us) against other(s) (it or them). As a worldview,…
This day before election, tension is like a membrane stretched as tight as it can be in all directions and…
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…
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…
It’s leaf-color-change time. Winter is ahead and the songs of spring have been silent for the last few months. But…
I woke this morning in dread. Politics, the environment, whatever: my heart was heavy with dire foreboding and preemptive grief.…