Continue Reading Until the Flood This is one of the rare mornings where I write directly before I post. I had to give yesterday’s experience, today’s topic,…
Continue Reading The Map is not the Territory I do get a kick out of visiting art exhibits with my octogenarian painter friend – sometimes grumpy, often funny, never boring…
Continue Reading There’s a lot of courage out here “There’s a lot of courage out here,” were the words of Kaia Sand, executive director of Street Roots, when introducing 11 women…
Continue Reading The New University in Exile Consortium A few years back I saw a remarkable documentary about a Jewish musician of Polish descent, Bronislaw Huberman, who changed cultural…
Continue Reading Supernatural Enforcement I’ve been wondering, as is my wont. The topic: oh, something narrowly defined, like the interaction between religion, politics and societal evolution….
Continue Reading In so many words This was the upshot of yesterday’s Brexit episode in Brussels: They don’t leave on 3/29 They potentially leave on 4/12 They potentially leave on 5/22 Perhaps…
Continue Reading Purim Yesterday afternoon was the beginning of spring, and at sundown we saw the beginning of Purim. This Jewish festival is a celebration of…
Continue Reading Good Writing I might be a year older, but I haven’t gone soft quite yet. Proof positive are the odd results of yesterday’s photo…
Continue Reading There’s Hope Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake. Walter…
Continue Reading Contrasts Today is the birthday of Grover Cleveland, the nation’s 22nd president from 1885 to 1889 and its 24th president from 1893 to…
