‘a story of a time, fifty years from now, when a man is arrested and taken off for clinical study because he insists on looking at un-televised reality, and breathing un-air-conditioned air.’ —Ray Bradbury (1973) Nuremberg, BC Have you ever been to Nuremberg? BC, I mean. It’s a little-traveled place,…
Category: Spirit
The Living Art of Improvisation
The Living Art of Improvisation I might say that my life story, in the living, was one long improvisation. We might say the same about any life, as we adapt day by day and moment by moment to whatever life throws at us, as a matter of survival or measure…
No Present
Is it important to cover the past, to entertain or explicate what happened and why? Shall we instead embark on a speculative quest to predict or manage the future? What is to be said about the all-encompassing present, complete in its own perfection, its paradox of simultaneous fullness and emptiness?…
Three Meditations on Evil
“The line between good and evil runs through the landscape of every human heart.” —Joanna Macy The Devil’s Advocate Stunned, you watch biology, democracy, the rule of law dissolve, a cacophony of ripples on a boundless shore. In dismay you demand, ”Who are the evil geniuses who claim to rule…