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Bowie’s death.  Such a death. Here is a person – the first person, perhaps – who made a work of art out of his death. When first I learned about Eleanora Dusa and about her long [...]

David Bowie has cleared the decks.  It is almost as though all other deaths were “regular” and now … his:  A couple of days after his 69th and upon the release of his final [...]

Reading a great book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (MC) on creativity . . . broader and deeper than I anticipated. I’d been waiting (yet not suffering) over when if ever my next writing [...]

Hi! It’s the obligatory Happy New Year post.  Psychics giving their predictions on “Coast to Coast.”  Everyone at a Hollywood party assumes that no one in the room would vote [...]

I like to ask my students if anyone knows how to breathe.  Most look perplexed and I prod them to raise their hands if they do.  One or two will, and I call on one of them.  They always say, [...]

It’s important to do something memorable over a holiday – like eat out somewhere special or go on a trip … or read a particular book.  Since I am not hungry and not going [...]

Now here in the Christmas Season let us contemplate for a moment God. First let us separate God from Religious Tradition (RT).  RT concerns organized, institutionalized, named institutions, [...]

There are four forces the result in four responses.  The responses are: attraction to the “right wing” attraction to the “left wing” recruitment to extremist groups [...]

We say we have five senses.  There are many more than five, but all the others are aspects of the sense of touch:  we have the sense of distance, the sense of balance, the sense of movement, the [...]