Continue Reading The Philosophers’ Stone(wall) What can I say – wisdom surrounds us. Of a certain kind…. There is the hopeful: There is the resigned: There is the Golde Rule: And,…
Continue Reading Glimpses of Politics (More on the RNC next week…) There are those who think and there are those who shoot. Which way will the country go? This way? Or that way? The aestheticization of violence…
Continue Reading Reassurance Much help out there to answer this question (if you want to avoid stepping into that truck and getting proselytized.) You could rely on…
Continue Reading Mixed Message For free health advice you do not have to look far. However, parsing the message is already challenging if you are of…
Continue Reading Miami Advice Good that I was wearing sneakers. Fleet feet required to run away from trite exhortations. Photographed, no less, a street block apart. And then…
Continue Reading The Writing on the Wall Unstoppable Gentrification Last week was devoted to Holocaust poetry and resistance, a difficult topic. So I thought this week we’ll go a little lighter with some messages…
Continue Reading I am not Brave The pendulum has swung back in current assessments of German resistance to the Hitler regime. Earlier historians condemned an entire people for blindly and…
Continue Reading Our Duty to Witness Primo Levi’s appeal to all of us – as you’ll see in the poem below – could not be more timely. It…
Continue Reading For the Musicians Music played a huge role for those trying to survive; it helped to remember, it supported resistance, it allowed lament and it…
Continue Reading The Children’s Keeper Elisabeth von Thadden Towards the end of World War II she was beheaded by the Nazis for high treason. Elisabeth von Thadden was seen as…
