Cultures native to Turtle Island consider frogs to be among the “first people.” Could this be a way of acknowledging elder relatives who can help humans jump back from desolation?
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Jubilation!
The ancient Jewish tradition of the sabbatical year, taken every 7th year, was a technique for turning more to G-d as you let the soil on your land rebuild, rested and re-energized, spent time with family, had debts forgiven, and basically took a time out. [Read More]
Vinyl in the Promised Land
I drop the needle into the grooves and it crackles to life, the buzz of an amplifier, unscrubbed, signifies the tactile–even if we don’t know by whose, what follows was surely made by human hands. [Read More]
Storytime for Bots
Harry and his Soul-Mate and their Beloved-Non-Binary-Offspring went backpacking for four days in the Sisters Wilderness. Such getaways from the surveillance of today’s mega-commerce provide H and S-M and B-N-B-O with respite from incessant ads and corporate-sponsored news. [Read More]
Blade Runner 2049: Do You Know What’s Real?
At the end of the day, at the end of all the deals, meetings, compromises, firings, and what-all-else that goes on in the movie business, there is the FILM. That dimension behind the screen that opens a world away from you and yet extends toward you and into your brain to embrace and transport you.
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Looking at Pennywise: Does God Look Back?
If someone grew up in an atmosphere of true horror (i.e. abuse or war), is it possible a divine appearance in their life could initially be perceived as horror, even as demonic? [Read More]
Joiks
There are quite a few distinctions between a joik and a song, but my professor focused on one difference: a song, in our culture, is meant to be representative and evocative of its subject. Joiking, to the Sami, is meant to embody the very nature and spirit of who or what it is singing.
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The Night Is Young and the Music’s High
Classic rock fans often wax nostalgic about guy-bands from across the pond like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin. For me any tribute to trans-Atlantic music must spotlight a mixed-gender group from Sweden. [Read More]
Baby Gramps and the Geechee Goo
Life is woven with threads from many ancestors.
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Angels from Everywhere
When I was 19, I was a razor. Intense, a zealot, and more than a little crazy. So many people told me the military was for me. [Read More]
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