Month: March 2005
Predecessors
Wilderness hikers with an appropriate sense of nature follow the practicel of leaving no trace of their presence in the wild. There is a skill in learning not t...
Simplicity VI
The thin line between simplicity and eccentricity is easily crossed. Doubtless we have all discovered secrets of simplicity that others might deem eccentric. Fo...
Sound and music
Sound has the capacity to conjure sensibilities in us, or rather, we interpret sounds in certain ways. Perhaps the highest refinements of this giving of meaning...
Ultimate question
It used to be said that the ultimate philosophical question is “What would you do if you had 24 hours left to live?” This is the execution view of l...
Hermit-pope
Is it not the fate of hermits to fail in worldy standards of authority and persuasion? Their authority and their persuasiveness are only in their example, and c...
Art and the solitary
Rouault’s portrait of a clown is a self-portrait and yet a portrait of all of us. As Rouault himself said of the painting, “The clown?… but th...