Stephenwolf "Down South"

Which was the more life-changing and lasting journey this summer -- the outer or the inner? My trip to China for 3 difficult weeks...wit...

It is the acting, the necessary outer smile, the inner "smile", ie the obligatory positive attitude in the voice, the control of t...

Journal extract: people do not think here. they are awake enough to do their how of living, and perhaps a few other aspects -- but that ...

Reading in Inventing Europe , and reflecting on China. Do people put on cultures, languages, even psyhologies, like they put on clothes. The...

A minister and his assistant walk up to the coffee shop where I sit from the nearby Episcopal Church where I went as a child -- called Carpe...

Alone on a balcony deep in the night, with no one at all aware of one's presence, thoughts and feelings there... Speaking, if only inwar...

Yestereve, in an old-style southern home, with pleasant wine and delicious seafood, I talked to two old friends who seem to have known no st...