Kitchen Music Society of Sorrow and Delight A plucked musical movement, hairpin poetic turns, mythical stories in rough harmonics. Baptize me into this Kitchen Music Society of Sorrow and Delight. No time like a pandemic to establish a new society. Perhaps by the end of this, you’ll join the membership. Recently, I uncovered a faded list of songs I had written years ago. Songs that I want played at my wake. Songs that speak to my body while I breathe and my hope that they’ll speak to my dearest after I’ve exhaled my last breath. I can picture beers cracked …
Author: Swanson
Building Character that Bends Towards Mystery with Christian Miller
“Christian Miller teaches us that the road to virtue lies in humility about our own virtue and an acceptance that others are struggling with their flaws. This is a very valuable book at a moment when our society could use a dose of openness and a sense of forgiveness.” E.J. Dionne Jr., Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and University Professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture, Georgetown University Christian B. Miller, is a philosophy professor at Wake Forest University, where his primary research in contemporary ethics and philosophy of religion. A guest made to order for Contemplify. We talk about …
Manifesto Contemplatio
Be like the foxwho makes more tracks than necessary,some in the wrong direction.Practice resurrection. – Wendell Berry (Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front) Webster’s dictionary defines Manifesto as such: a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer. Manifestos are all over the place. People of all stripes can find a manifesto that was written with them in mind; Women in Business, architect apprentices, and even for the passive aggressive. Some manifestos are dreary, droll, or toxic whose only functions are to name their superiority and who they exclude as the ‘other’. There was such an example …