Categoría: essay
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The Corona-cation Chronicles by Suzane Austin-Hill
April 2, 2020 When the isolation was no longer fun and the room-to-room marathon had been run, a party of eight escaped to a park and found rare somethings there. In the space between us – much more than six feet – we did liberating “Sound of Music” twirls. Although…
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“Has Fecklessness Ruined Capital Punishment?” by Lot Hildegard
This is not an essay on the moral merits or demerits of capital punishment, nor does it address the question of whether the death penalty is a deterrent. This is rather a discourse on whether capital punishment is one more thing that we as a society now do so badly,…
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Get Black on White: an Overview of the Poems of John Yamrus by Peter Mladinic
The short-story writer and poet Raymond Carver said get black on white. John Yamrus lives that adage. He doesn’t think about doing it, he does it. An original, reluctant to call himself a poet, his poems have the intuitiveness of Emily Dickinson, the grit of Todd Moore, the street-smarts of…
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Love and Discipline by Edward Ortiz
Lately, I have been reading too many news stories about an old man man exhibiting the following behaviors: frequent temper tantrums, angry outbursts and irritability, argumentativeness and defiance, destruction of property, serious rule violations, arguing with adults or refusing to comply with adults’ rules, being resentful or spiteful, often deliberately…
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Three practices that will improve our lives by J. Ré Crivello
Friday, you wake up and must write after having dinner the night before with some ceramics colleagues. And you see how House of the Dragon challenges us: What will I write about on a Friday? And you go on ruling things out: about the upcoming fall of the Sánchez government?,…
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Guru Nature is now out by Susana Cabaço
Today’s post doesn’t come with one message as usual, but with many—the mystical passages inspired by Nature’s rhythms, elements, and symbols that fill the pages of my new book. Guru Nature: Spiritual Insights, Lessons, and Guidance from the Natural World is now out. It invites you to reconnect with your…
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«Don’t You Want Somebody to Love?» (by FBC)
Somebody to Love There was a time when The United States began to hear itself differently. The old voices were still there. Presidents spoke from podiums. Generals appeared on television. Newspapers announced another escalation, another speech, another distant place whose name suddenly mattered because young men were being sent there.…
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Hold on by Susana Cabaço
When environmental conditions go extreme, Nature considerately whispers to its children, “Hold on.” No tree, no animal, and certainly no human can control external factors. But each and every one of them can hold on—retreat, get quiet, and wait. Hold on until the severity passes—and it always does—so they can…
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Surviving (in liquid relationships) by J Ré Crivello
“Her voice was falsely cheerful. Paul didn’t like it. Neither the tone of her voice nor the restless look in her eyes. *I’m behaving badly*, that look said. It roused his caution and made him put his guard up” (p. 235, Stephen King, *Misery*) “And in *The portable Homeland* (2026),…
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Fallen angels by John Coyote
Fallen angels In the lair of the fallen angels. Old men talk of fleeing love, old war and missed faces. I joined the club at a young age. Bad decisions, dead brothers and greed in love made me turn old and cold. I was used-up and knew old man wisdom…
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P. D. James by Luisa Zambrotta
Phyllis Dorothy James, known professionally as P. D. James, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014) was an English crime writer.She became famous for a series of detective novels whose protagonist is police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh. According to her “What the detective story is about is not murder…
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“Attention on Girls’ Sports” by Bill Tope
I don’t usually follow the Sports page much, but what I’ve seen since resubscribing to the local papers last year has made me sit up and take notice. I’m speaking of the prevalence of young women of school age–we used to call them girls–who are excelling in organized high school…
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The future? Or… present by J. Ré Crivello
“The idea we don’t articulate is how intimately our lives today are connected to people who haven’t even been born yet.” “Those things we don’t pay attention to, like plastic pens, cell phones, or computer parts that will become fossilized. In 2020, we surpassed a peak: there are more materials…
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Thoughts on Gambling by Dominik Slusarczyk
Some people love gambling. But the odds are always in favour of the house. The odds are stacked so that people are overwhelmingly likely to lose all their money if they continue to play. If they want to make money off gambling, they have to get lucky at the beginning…
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Yoko Ono an Artist? Hmm…
On Yoko Ono as Art History’s Worst Yoko Ono’s career is the purest case study in how proximity to genuine genius can be laundered into a legacy of its own. Strip away the Beatles connection and what remains is a thin catalogue of nonsense and gestures masquerading as ideas: instructional…
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1925 (04) How Did I Become a Masca (Witch)? By J Ré Crivello
The following is part of a book in preparation that I am writing about this period when my family stopped living in Italy in 1925. —J. Ré Crivello “In the folk tradition of Cuneo and throughout Iamonte (Italy), a woman did not become a masca through traditional witchcraft initiation rites…
