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David Lynch’s Electric Dreams and Atomic Nightmares January 28, 2025
The loss of David Lynch — the great American filmmaker, painter, musician, and transcendental meditation evangelist — is profound. More than any other American artist, Lynch peered at the opaque conditions of contemporary life and saw the sheer horr...
How Much Would You Pay for Inner Peace? January 28, 2025
Meditation is a simple, free, and time-honored practice that focuses the mind, reduces stress, and sits menacingly on my daily to-do list like a terrible chore. Oh, I want to meditate, and I know I’ll feel better after I’ve done it, but the notion of...
The Soul of David Lynch January 22, 2025
On January 16, we lost David Lynch, at age 78, just shy of his January 20 birthday. That would be January 20, 1946. Lynch was a Baby Boomer. A child of ’50s America. In other words, paradise was his birthright and the loss of paradise the theme of hi...
The New Semantics of the Kafkaesque January 15, 2025
In conversation with a friend who is well versed in neologism, the discussion often returns to Franz Kafka. Trace the roots of any word back far enough and you’ll find historical context largely removed from contemporary meaning, but Franz Kafka and ...
Who Should We Emulate? January 13, 2025
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” This aphorism appears in Meditations, a collection of philosophical musings written by Marcus Aurelius, a 2nd century Roman emperor.Aurelius is considered one of the less tyrannical, ev...
“As I Know by Love”: Wendell Berry’s Another Day January 06, 2025
Wendell Berry’s This Day collected all his Sabbath poems from 1979-2012, and now Another Day collects the subsequent eleven years of Sabbath poems. These are worthy continuations of one of the most remarkable and long-lasting poetic endeavors in Amer...
