Gifts of music for Yuletide
Traditional Yuletide carols performed by several of my favorite musicians and vocal groups.
Author: DJB
The 2024 year-end reading list
The annual list of books I’ve enjoyed over the past twelve months.
History’s fascinating web of connections
An exhilarating history looks at the multiplicity of causes and effects that produced past and present.
Great necessities call out great virtues
Framing is language for debate that carries and evokes ideas about what we value.
Gentleness is powerful. Stillness is strength.
Practices to nourish our capacity for understanding, love, joy, and inclusiveness.
Conversations with writers: 2024
A summary of my 2024 discussions with five different authors about their most recent works.
Rest in the grace of the world
When despair for the world grows, come into the peace of wild things.
It was a dark and stormy night . . . the 2024 edition
Prize-winning bad first lines from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
Deep in our Age of Folly
Lewis Lapham eloquently called us to put the wisdom of the past at the service of the present.
History as a touchstone for transformation
New Harmony’s extraordinary past was, and remains, a touchstone for transformation.
MORE TO COME... 