Monthly Archive: July 2025

A Peek from a Pixel’s Perch

A Peek from a Pixel’s Perch

O Lover, Sequestered in the bifurcated gestalt of my protracted minority,  in some respects an isolate harried by contingency and void,  still holding both You and myself to be entities in some structure, I...

Regarding Non-dualistic Spirituality

Regarding Non-dualistic Spirituality

O Lover, Over the past year I have been increasingly beset by questions regarding the implications of non-dualism for contemplative practice and awareness. I understand non-dualism as affirming that Reality in its very largest...

Beneficence

Beneficence

[Hall, Meredith, Beneficence. Boston: Godine, 2020.] O Lover, The setting for my reading highlight of this summer (but half spent) is largely restricted to a Maine farmstead across decades beginning in the early 1930s....

“Exploration into God”

“Exploration into God”

[Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872-1958), Towards the Unknown Region (1907) & A Sea Symphony (1910); each is an orchestral/choral setting of text from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (“Darest Thou Now O Soul” & “Passage...

Enchantment Revisited

Enchantment Revisited

[“We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time” (T. S. Eliot,...