Category: Song of the Day

Every culture has an origin narrative, the story of how their people came to exist on this earth. The tales are passed from one generation to the next, vocally in cultures that do not have a written language. In my tribe the legend of Adam and Eve gained widespread...

Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down the yawning abyss becomes dizzy... Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into its own possibility, laying hold of...

Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around...

Contributing to the discord will be a climate that equates opposing ideas or speech to violence and hate. Righteousness can fuel abhorrent behavior, and many react with a shocking level of vitriol and contempt for conflicting viewpoints and the people who hold them....

I'll give the media and the politicians credit: it took them about three days to get me from I ain't afeard o' no Corona Beer Virus! to HO-LEE @#%&!!!  Last Sunday night we had dinner out with friends and family. Fast forward to Friday: the door is barred - no one...

In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again... As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden. -- Chance the Gardener, Being There...

Eons ago, during the Obama Administration, I stood in the checkout line of a CVS drugstore in a small Georgia town whose most thriving industry, as far as I could tell, was the selling of title loans. The woman in front of me, with a modest cart full of goods, was...