Category: religion

Art Judges Economy, Not Vice Versa

_____ Art Judges Economy, Not Vice Versa Part of the ideal in creating an economy is to figure out how to optimize growth and production and decrease scarcity, while at the same time distributing goods in beneficial ways. Furthermore, with the absence of tyranny, everyone…

May 22, 2013
Jack Kerouac’s Childhood Homes in West Centralville–66 West St. Turns into Rt. 66 West

_____ Jack Kerouac’s Childhood Homes in West Centralville—66 West St. Turns into Rt. 66 West The collage shows Jack Kerouac with all six of his homes in the West Centralville section of Lowell Massachusetts, plus the St. Louis School, part of the parish. The photo of Kerouac is taken…

September 16, 2010
V. Sundaram’s A Great Sant from Gujarat and Rajasthan (with rare translations of Dadu bhajans)

_____ by V. Sundaram A Great Sant from Gujarat and Rajasthan I have been inspired to write this article on Sant Dadu Dayal (1544—1603) of Gujarat and Rajasthan by seeing the entry on 22-2-2010 in the Sanatan Almanac (Hindu Calendar rooted in Sanatana Dharma) published by Sanatan…

February 22, 2010
All-World Wrestling Poetry—a collection of 52 wrestling poems

_____ _____ The poems in this collection are on wrestling—the collegiate and amateur styles—but also how we wrestle with life, where we find wrestling in our lives, plus our gods, prophets and heroes past, those who have wrestled the classic bouts. It is modern and boundary-busting, and at the…

November 29, 2009
. . . and don’t forget these Christmas poems

Anonymous At the Last The stream is calmest when it nears the tide, And flowers are sweetest at eventide, The birds most musical at close of day, The saints divinest when they…

December 21, 2008
A Sunday Holiday of Fifty Negro Boys

_____ A friend of mine bought an old house in Fitchburg, Massachusetts last year. Inside one of the walls as if for insulation, was an old magazine, a publication called “The African Missions of the White Fathers,” which lists an address of 37 Ramparts Street, Quebec. This particular issue is dated 100 years ago: …

November 27, 2008
Posing Aemilia Lanyer (as Shakespeare; as his Dark Lady; and as she posed)

______ ______ Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645), was born in London to Baptista Bassano and his possibly common-law wife Margaret Johnson. At age 23, the then Aemilia Bassano married her cousin Alphonso Lanyer, supposedly after becoming pregnant by Henry Carey, Lord Hudson. She had two children, a son Henry and a daughter Odillya, who…

June 8, 2008