Scene: a therapy session. The client and the therapist. First session. Set, well lit, professional furniture, muted colors and decor… Patient: [ Sits across from…
The monastery—the citadel built as refuge from the world, the flesh, the devil. The monk pronounces Noli me tangere (‘touch me not’)—Christ’s words to Mary Magdalene…
Why should life all work and labor be? We are not the root and crown of nature. Leave us alone. Let us drowse. Let us…
O Shariputra [who listens to the teachings of the Buddha], form is not separate from boundlessness; boundlessness is not separate from form. Form is boundlessness;…
Adam Kirsch has written a brilliant debunking of the Roman Empire. He refers to a range of critics who view Rome, warts and all–and mostly…
1 Ananke – impersonal cosmic necessitystands behind and above the will of both humans and even the gods. Related idea Inevitability. 2 Moira – fate…
. Japanese art– imperfection / impermanence. . Greek art — beauty / perfection. [Civilizations PBS] ………..———-…………. Art Deco quit all the squiggles and vines of…
“THE HARD WAY Between a Rock and the Hardest Place” by Mark Jenkins What happens when a solitary day hike turns into the ultimate test…
This history of the colossal Bamian Buddhas appears in AFGHANISTAN: PHOTOGRAPHS 1971-1972 by Adrian Panaro and Arthur Panaro. Adrian Panaro, BA Anthropology (University of Delaware,…