Still Life

 

Winter

 I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influence of summer.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature.

An Austere Elegance

 

Hubert Reeves

 

T.S. Eliot Reading Ash Wednesday

The Ovenbird

                          

      The question that he frames in all but words/ Is what to make of a diminished thing.                                   

Rorty On His Work and the Humanities

More Richard Rorty

Pragmatism & Truth - Rorty, Putnam, & Conant (2002)

Richard Rorty on John Dewey

The Fire of Life

                                                         Richard Rorty at the end.

Transgressive Transcendentalism

 6 July 1841. Ah ye old ghosts! ye builders of dungeons in the air! why do I ever allow you to encroach on me a moment; a moment to win me to your hapless company? In every week there is some hour when I read my commission in every cipher of nature, and know that I was made for another office, a professor of the Joyous Science, a detector & delineator of occult harmonies & unpublished beauties, a herald of civility, nobility, learning, & wisdom; an affirmer of the One Law, yet as one who should affirm it in music or dancing, a priest of the Soul yet one who would better love to celebrate it through the beauty of health & harmonious power.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals. 

Photo credit: Denis Nika

To Be a Drunken Nightingale

 

Between now and the day they put coins on my eyes, I want nothing more than to read as much poetry as I can, cross-culturally, both the surfaces and the depths, in as many languages as I am competent, and otherwise in faithful translation, until I emerge from the chrysalis an Emersonian professor of the Joyous Science, a Hafezean dancing Dervish, a drunken Nightingale.

One Pair of Eyes: Dreamwalkers, Full Documentary (Sub Esp-Ita-Fr-Rus)