I'll be offline for a while. My step-dad Jim, who would have been 86 on April 15, passed away Friday from natural causes. Jim had a difficult life in many ways. His early years were spent in an orphanage until age 9 when he was adopted by a farmer who used him strictly as a …
Category: Death
Life Against Death
My first exposure to the ideas of Norman O. Brown's was his book Love's Body which I read back in late 90's. This classic book remains on my top shelf of insightful and provocative reads. It's trippy - condensing the entire history of humankind into a Freudian-based mythology in which he sees that the "only contrary to Patriarchy …
Lament of the Dead
The mystery of life begins in death, for if death did not exist, think of all of the things that we would not struggle with and all of the questions we would not have much reason to ask. Imagine too the security and peace we might know without sickness, murder, pain and suffering that comes …
For A Dancer
One of the most beautiful, yet saddest songs about death that I have ever heard is Jackson Browne's For a Dancer. Maybe you've heard it? In my teens, friends and I loved JB's album, "Late for the Sky," in which the studio version of For a Dancer can be found on. My friend Regina, who …
Theoria 