Sunny Side Up

I wrapped up my part of the current iteration of "Performing the Problem of Suffering: The Book of Job and the Arts" today talkin...

BBG Japanese Garden's gate makes the sakura into a scene from Ozu... but other trees aren't content to sit in a frame!

To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and the flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, ...

Through Poem-a-Day , which I sometimes check, I've discovered a delightful young poet named Chen Chen. The title of his first book, Whe...

These "Wishing Balls" by Manoël Pénicaud are part of one of a fun set of exhibitions called " Shared Sacred Sites ." Th...

The persistence of support for our pagan president by white evangelicals has become a topic of greater and greater interest. We've know...

Garden State glory-of-the-snow, trout lilies and Dutchman's breeches 

Weekend outing... to Skylands, New Jersey's unexpected northwest!

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden's magnolias and many of the cherries are in full bloom. The Chinese witch hazel is a rush of delight, to...

When new robes are received the old robes are used as coverlets, the old coverlets as mattress covers, the old mattress covers as rugs, the...

A building I pass all the time on the junket between school and the library at Washington Square Park had a crowd assembled in front of it ...

In my course on the Book of Job and the arts today, it was time for Archibald Macleish's 1958 play "J. B." - my own introduct...

It'd been such a long time since last I was in the part of Germany where my mother grew up that I had forgotten what it looks like. Ind...

This is where I've been keeping the last few days, the town of Ochtrup b/ Münster i/ W (as it was inscribed on the case of my German g...

and then two hours on the train to the German town where my mother grew up, where her brother - my godfather - is being laid to rest.

Our resolutely unbeautiful college cafe has opened. Its predecessor was all reds and ochers. I guess it's supposed to be pure container...