Great necessities call out great virtues
Framing is language for debate that carries and evokes ideas about what we value.
Author: DJB
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.
A guitar that sounds “the way bacon smells”
Bonnie Raitt, a 2024 Kennedy Center Honoree, is a national treasure.
From the bookshelf: November 2024
Each month I have a goal to read five books. Here are the books I read in November 2024.
We are the ones we have been waiting for
The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn’t come out of nowhere.
MORE TO COME... 