The Common Wealth of the United States of America

Today, July 4, 2024, we sing the birthday song to our “sweet land of liberty.”  The birthday present we gifted ourselves is a fundamental crisis. I say ‘gifted’ because on each birth anniversary we need to remember the labor pains of our national birth....

Inurement

What do I need from this day? Enough true night to inure me against false suns.

Century XX

The twentieth century, famous for accomplishing both industrialized mass murder and industrialized convenience  

The Confession 

I was sitting in a hotel lobby in Barcelona, Spain waiting for my traveling companions. A woman approached me, someone I didn’t know. “Excuse me,” she said, sitting down in the empty chair beside me. . “May I ask you a favor?” “Certainly,” I said out of polite...

Vive la Difference

“Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time       which could be our ‘salvation’ if we thought it through.” — Luce Irigaray Several years ago for Father’s Day, my step-daughter gave me a tee-shirt. Printed in bold letters on the front were the words: Radical...