What Do White Supremacists, African Americans, Jews, Me, and You Have in Common?

Pixar

I have not, yet, read this book, but with how successful AND influential Pixar has been you would think that John Lasseter, a founder and primary creative force, would, AT LEAST, get the Steve Jobs treatment. As it is, this biography, one of only two or three I could find on him, and the most … Continue reading Pixar →

“Fight for It”

Black Statue of Liberty. Something I wrote a LOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG......... time ago, but never posted. But AM now. “Fight For It.” My favorite song on the Hamilton soundtrack is “Wait For It.” Every time I listen to the soundtrack I can’t get the song out of my head, except that when I hear it in my head … Continue reading “Fight for It” →

On the Truth and Power of “Free-Association”

Actual photo taken by me. One of two places of any "significance" I've ever been, unless, of course, you count them all. Yesterday my soul slipped into the sea, It buoyed there a while and cried for you and me. That soulless surface scarred, it dredged the deepest dream, it swelled the strangest sigh... Yesterday … Continue reading On the Truth and Power of “Free-Association” →

“Redemption Song”

https://youtu.be/_GFjM_ekXAg?feature=shared "I never really heard that song until I heard Sinéad O'Connor sing it." - Timothy Kelly, "For You, a Love Story" (unpublished)

On “Suffering”

"Strength to Love." According to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence," his final essay in Strength to Love, "I have lived these last few years with the conviction that unearned suffering is redemptive." However, according to Alice Miller, psychologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst, all behavior stems from childhood experience, at least in … Continue reading On “Suffering” →