Edward Curtin “A house constitutes a body of images that give mankind proofs or illusions of stability.” Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space There is a vast and growing gulf...

John Griffin If you ever thought of becoming a philosopher, now’s the time. In fact, now is the only and last chance you have. The philosophical adventure – many...

Edward Curtin It’s been raining incessantly for three days. It is a cool early morning in the beginning of July and I have just made a cup of coffee....

Edward Curtin Once upon a time in my youthful naiveté, I would mock those who said they believed in out-of-space aliens and flying saucers. In my hubris, I even...

Kit Knightly This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of Peter Jackson’s trilogy adapting JRR Tolkien’s Lord of...

Dielle Ciesco Who would you be? A lot of people wonder: if I’d been alive at the time of the 2nd World War, who would I have been? Would...

Edward Curtin The road led up the hill between houses until it came to the lake where it ran between the lake and the woods and the thought of...

Edward Curtin In March of last year as the coronavirus panic was starting, I wrote a somewhat flippant article saying that the obsession with buying and hoarding toilet paper...

David Perez Hardly a day goes by without news of the multi-sided impact of the digital world, how it shapes our individual lives and our collective future. Curse and...

Edward Curtin After a night of haunting dreams that flowed as if they were written like running water, written on air, as the Roman poet Catullus once said, in...

John Steppling “There is no question that most television is a waste of time. The people connected with it realize how bad programming is and go ahead with their...

Edward Curtin In 1888,  the year before he went insane, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote the following in Twilight of the Idols: We have got rid of the real world: what world...

Todd Hayen Most articles that I have seen regarding the monstrosity of the Covid-19 crises focuses on objective, practical, and materialist issues. These topics include the destruction of the...

Words are inadequate to describe certain experiences that happen outside the law of cause and effect. Although they are universal, they are often so weird that to recount them...

At my Quaker Meeting, occasionally someone will say, “Could we have some silence please?” especially during a business meeting, which we call Meeting for Worship with a Concern for...

Edward Curtin The trap was set at least twenty-five years ago and the mice jumped at the smell of the cheese. I am referring to the introduction of the...

Edward Curtin Since death is one idea that has no history except as an idea and not a reality any of us have experienced, it is the most frightening...

Hiroyuki Hamada One might think that artists wouldn’t mind being isolated and having more time in studios on account of the current Coronavirus situation. After all, we spend an...

Edward Curtin And all the news just repeats itself Like some forgotten dream we’ve both seen” John Prine, Hello in There Without the ability to forget, we become imprisoned...

Renée Parsons For those who believe that there is more to life than just the physical, material world, the role of karma is well understood. Popularly known as what-goes-...