Music & evocation

Music is the art of collecting narrative sounds to achieve a desired sensibility. Music has a primordial function because sound precedes other human senses. We ...

Banana

In 17th century Japan, a middling middle-aged poet and scholar moved to a hermit hut. Matsuo Kinsaku had disciples, hangers-on who aspired to fame for his own s...

Giving and getting

Harvest festivals are universal cultural phenomena and to a great degree spontaneous and egalitarian. But in the United States, observance of a day of thanksgiv...