There was a he-squirrel who thought he could count all the she-squirrels in the set. But his future wife thought…
i am here! A friend of mine, from another country, suggested we meet “here” for a hike on the mountain. …
I very much admire the slow and stately Filipino dark fairy tale, In My Mother’s Skin. From one of its…
Memory travels — not from instant to instant — but in waves washing up on a shore, back and forth…
The danger of Hollywood fantasy films is that they are simply too glossy, too picaresque, too spectacular. And too much…
Sculpture by Taiwanese artist Ju Ming. One cannot grasp the Asian aesthetic of cuteness apart from courtesies toward elders, especially…
Karl Kerenyi, who was Joseph Campbell’s peer, wrote of the Greek myths, that Aphrodite was a solar goddess, whose promise…
There is no sword that cuts purely from outside the whole. You can always redraw the lines of separation between…
Our dreams do not come true, as such, in the way I might have wished for. And yet it is…
The best allegory for what science can reveal about faith is not the particle accelerator or the telescope but the…