Libra’s National Holiday

It’s Autumnal Equinox day! To most people that means equal length of day and night. Of course it’s much more complicated than that, but at the least it’s when the sun “appears to cross the celestial equator from south to north.”The sense of evenness, of balance, is the cornerstone of most new age therapies...

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 Mapeel     9/23/2011     fam, tfamily, vision   

The Great War & Modern Memory: The Sublime Gash of War Horse

"Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected... Its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its ends... Millions were destroyed because two people, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his consort, were shot... But the Great War was more ironic than any before or since....

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 Mapeel     9/20/2011     literature, theater   

Why I Want to Remember

Because the tales of the few survivors from near the impact zones are harrowing beyond belief. The 911 tapes released reveal the desperate, terrified people calling for help, screaming about the heat and the flames and the smoke, begging for someone to “come get us,” until they succumbed to the fire...

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 Mapeel     9/10/2011     9/11   

Old Media Commemorates

The art of the magazine cover. I haven't bought a magazine in 10 years, but when I saw such an array of ideas and designs on how to think about this anniversary from the major old media outlets, I bought one of ea...

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 Mapeel     9/09/2011     9/11   

My Own Open Window: The Literary Meets the Culinary

“You may wonder why we keep that window wide open on an October afternoon,” said the niece, indicating a large French window that opened on to a lawn." Nowhere does our inner sensibility get such an intriguing expression than in the furnishings of our home. It’s a part of human nature that Restoration...

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 Mapeel     9/04/2011     literature