On a cool weekday earlier in May this year, having driven for miles to synchronise existential thoughts to musical rhythm, alongside a fine tapestry of sounds created by Erik Satie, Herbert Pixner, Evgeny Grinko, Estas Tonne and others, I found myself meandering along chords that lend themselves to such peripatetic philosophical pursuits. I finally arrived…
The order of the spiral
Equiangularity in nature ~ Rethinking a philosophy in life Time has certainly moved on from a place of incipient chaos and uncertainty to one of order and hope, although this wouldn’t appear to be the case with current events seemingly spiraling out of control. This schema of perception itself serves nothing except to create…
Revisiting Sidney Lanier’s ‘Hymns of the Marshes’ in Mill Creek Marsh
Before Spring at Mill Creek Marsh, Atlantic Cedar Stumps Graveyard It was a sunny Sunday and a walk through an emerald green oasis in the middle of suburban concrete made for poetic respite. Parking was so very easy, for not many people visit this area on any given day, but it…
Nan-e Badoom inspired by a Sufi hymn of Amir Khusrau
Life revolves around sustenance and sustenance lies rooted in bread. Single celled yeasty organisms, continuously budding, like producing like, as they slowly sustain themselves on the enriched artisan bread flour that I knead along with a dash of yogurt, some milk and ghee, to create a soft dough for preparing Naan. Naan…
Behind a mask, amid Whitman’s leaves of grass in the Van Vleck gardens at Montclair, NJ
Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait] – From BOOK XXIV. AUTUMN RIVULETS, LEAVES OF GRASS By Walt Whitman (Source: Project Gutenberg) 1 Out from behind this bending rough-cut mask, These lights and shades, this drama of the whole, This common curtain of the face contain’d in me for me, in you for…
Tools of resistance: a Musical Anthem and Graffiti from the Decade of Fire
I recently came across the lyrics of Resistiré, (30 artists in the contemporary video) in relation to my Spanish learning goal, a song that has been cast quite aptly as an anthem of Spain during these times of COVID-19. This 1960’s classic by Spaniards Ramón Arcusa and Manuel de la Calva of Dúo…
