The Silver in Your Pocket Ain’t No Measure of a Man – Survivor’s “Poor Man’s Son”
Given the profundity of the lyrics, perhaps we should listen more closely to what teenagers pulse through their earbuds. It might just be a weighty sharing moment.
COVID-19 – A Time of Poets and Philosophers
None of us particularly likes facing, “the dirty lowdown” within ourselves; however, now is the time to do it. It is also the time to reach out (though behind masks and from within the walls of our homes) to our communities and realize that we are not alone, in self-sufficiency or in our suffering.
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Alex, your memory follows me like the Christian scriptures of my youth. Peacemakers like you are rare, and you remind me of what I am not. I see you standing at a troubled country’s border like the sentinel you were in Madison, and I am convinced that if there were an army of you facing an invading force, they would see your grandeur, and simply lower their weapons. God follow you wherever you are.
Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” – An Explication of Grief
I posit that Adagio for Strings is not only “a stepwise motion,” but a stepwise motion akin to climbing a spiral staircase; there is one rotation after another around a defined epicenter. Adagio for Strings repeatedly contemplates itself during the ascent. To the listener, an apt analogy is that the melody winds around the spinal column up into the brain until the full cognizance of sorrow is realized.
Fulfilling the Measure of Our Creation – How Animals Embody This Sacred Trust
When we were in the mountains, my father once mused that animals, trees, stones, and other wonders of the earth probably do a better job of fulfilling the measures of their creation than we do, though humans have been blessed with great intelligence.
One English Major’s Descent into Reading Headings and Bullet Points: What the Hell Happened?
I am becoming a product of my age wherein bullet points and headings are everything, especially online and in PowerPoint documents. While I thoroughly read some articles that interest me, I also catch myself “scanning” the news or other materials that don’t interest me as much.