Heidegger’s “Letter on Humanism” – after it took me 2-1/2 days to decipher each word with Webster’s dictionary & the Greek alphabet, an online Latin & Greek dictionary, and the OED; Sartre’s “Existentialism is a Humanism” (to which Heidegger is… more ›

I’ve been meditating on “home” lately, coming around to realizing that this concept has not only driven me to chase the wind around the world several times but has also made my mourning always a process of wishing to be… more ›

I’m a Psychedelic Furs fan. Not a crazy, over-the-top fanatic, but I really like the band. I first saw them in concert in the summer of 1987. They played the Bronco Bowl – rest in peace – and the reason… more ›

I met you in 1999 just a few months before leaving Japan, and we became fast friends. Since then, I’ve loved keeping in touch with you … even all those teary-eyed international phone calls. Your funny, little voice always makes… more ›

Angelus Novus by Paul Klee My wing is poised to beatbut I would gladly return homewere I to stay to the end of daysI would still be this forlorn— Gershom Scholem, “Greetings from Angelus”There is a painting by Klee called… more ›

Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp character in Modern Times questions productionist modes of being in ways that would make even Heidegger proud. His job is unfulfilling and monotonous, and he is driven to not only insanity but probably the first reported case… more ›

The Mother of all the gods. The Mother of the Moon and Stars. The Goddess of the Sun and of War. Our Lady of the Serpents. Patron of those who die while giving birth. In Nahuatl her name means “one… more ›

Lord Siva represents the positive aspect of the destruction of the world because creation comes out of every destruction. He dances the world into and out of being surrounded by tongues of fire with his right leg firmly on the… more ›

Currently home to the three warmongering (i.e., monotheistic) Mesopotamian religions, Jerusalem was depicted as the center of the world on medieval maps. This city has been destroyed twenty times. A Kabbalist legend says that YHWH created ten blessings and ten… more ›

This larger-than-life sculpture of Zeus (or possibly Poseidon) was made in bronze circa 460 – 450 B.C.E. It is 2.09 m (6′ 10.5″) high and 2.10 m (6′ 10.75″) fingertip to fingertip. It was found in the sea near Cape… more ›