latest
-
Justice For All
Birthdays are a good time to look back, to look forward, and to take stock of who and what we are. We turn 241 today. There are many good and bad qualities about America and one of the worst is the blind eye we turn to the fact that we live in an unjust society. Read more
-
Independence Day
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with anotherand to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind Read more
-
Century Old Visions: Baudelaire
Baudelaire by Etienne Carjat I’ll admit right out of the gate that I’m pushing the whole Century Old Visions conceit to include Charles Baudelaire, seeing as he died a century and a half ago but he had to be at least a half century ahead of his time. Les Fleur du Mal, written in 1857, Read more
-
CitySketch: Flatiron
“I found myself agape, admiring a sky-scraper the prow of the Flat-iron Building, to be particular, ploughing up through the traffic of Broadway and Fifth Avenue in the afternoon light.” H.G. Wells The Flatiron Building, completed in 1902, is one of New York City’s most iconic skyscrapers. It is located at the triangle where Broadway Read more
-
Strong is the New Pretty
I ran across this book in Grand Central Terminal. The image through the window of bookstore caught my eye. I haven’t read Kate T. Parker’s book and take no issue with a celebration of girls being themselves. But… I miss the old pretty. Strength and beauty each have their purpose but of the two it Read more
-
Collossus
In 1939, as the followers of Hitler and Mussolini were spreading their cancer across Europe, Henry Miller left his adopted home of Paris to visit a friend in Greece. He wrote The Colosssus of Maroussi in an attempt to translate his Greek experiences into words. Tonic Reading Henry Miller is a tonic for everything that Read more
Words & Music 