Hunger and the Necessity of Poetry

Hunger and the Necessity of Poetry

Without poetry, and especially a poetic perspective of living, our insatiable hunger over-consumes the world. Ironically, this threatens our very survival to put food on our plates. This is because a poetic orientation to nourishment and beauty allows us to satiate...
Our Crazy World

Our Crazy World

There ‘s no shortage of truly disheartening and scary events unfolding these days, at the behest of human beings. There are few, if any, tidy solutions. There are a million debates about which facts are correct. I therefore try, in my understanding and in my...
The Violence of Magical Thinking

The Violence of Magical Thinking

Magical thinking: Magical thinking, or superstitious thinking, is the belief that unrelated events are causally connected despite the absence of any plausible causal link between them, particularly as a result of supernatural effects. For every magical belief, an...
The Pivot of Great Compassion

The Pivot of Great Compassion

We process emotional pain along the same neuro-circuitry we do physical pain. Why is this so mind-blowingly significant? Because to alleviate physical pain and injury our instinct is to resist and move away from the source of the injury. If the hot stove or the sharp...