Caravaggio’s Dagger – A Pursuit of Right Action

Caravaggio - The Beheading of John the Baptist - Detail, with the signature of the artist in the prophet's blood

Do we, then, find ourselves unable to know how to act ethically in our society — a society that glorifies money and global trade to make the rich richer, that deposits the poor at the outermost edges of community, that stands aside as our heritage disintegrates, that funds wars that dislocate peoples and destroy countries, that supports beliefs steeped […]

The Levendaal Canal, Leiden – Constellations of Desire I:III:1 – Aspects of Age

Levendaal, from the Kraaiers bridge near the Koene bridge Over the last many months I have read many articles and commentaries on the sadness of loss that is a part of age. Yes, it is harsh. And yes, aging is a physical deterioration, but it is not immediately an intellectual deterioration into oblivion. Oblivion will […]