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Reading the Poem, “Advice for Dying Fathers,” at Butler’s Coffee
On Friday night, one of my poet friends (Niccelle Davis) took a picture of me reading a poem to an audience at Butler’s Coffee in Palmdale, California, and posted it at her blog. I didn’t look too fat, so I asked her … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, Dylan Thomas, Keats, literature, Niccelle Davis, poems, poetry, public readings, reading, Santi Tafarella, writing
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Walking in the Paws of Others: Was It Love, Duty, or Sympathy That Motivated This Dog?
Or am I anthropomorphizing? — If the dog’s behavior was not triggered by a conscious impulse to love, duty, or sympathy, why did the dog cross the road? I wonder if the dogs were even related. Can a dog have … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropomorphism, consciousness, dogs, duty, evolutionary psychology, instinct, Keats, love, negative capability, soul, sympathy
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Fall Poem: Actor Ralph Richardson Reads John Keats’ “Ode to Autumn” After Reflecting on Old Age and Death
Ralph Richardson died in 1983 at the age of 81, so this clip is from the mid-1970s.
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Tagged aging, autumn, death, fall, John Keats, Keats, ode to autumn, old age, poems, poetry, ralph richardson
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The Heart of Dante Alighieri
If you’ve never read Dante Alighieri, the following is written as an enticement for you to consider doing so. A Key Dante Biographical Data Point Dante was born in Florence in 1265, but he did not die there. In fact, … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, Blake, dante, hell, Keats, life, love, poetry, Sophocles, The Divine Comedy, the inferno
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Mental Health Break
A near perfect video (and with great lyrics): From the lyrics: But in time a thought comes tugging on the sleavage of our minds: perhaps no perfect way exists at all, just many different kinds. . O but if it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged art, atheism, beauty, derrida, God, Keats, literature, mental health break, philosophy, postmodernism, psychology, the Beatles
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Catholic Priest, Father James Martin, fails to see the beauty of a fast moving woman in New York City
Catholic priest, James Martin, offers this incident as illustration of the richness of (his) existence that our plugged-in culture is bypassing: Not long ago, I was walking through a park in New York City. Racing across Union Square to an … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, Catholicism, feminism, God, imagination, Keats, philosophy, psychology, reification, solitude, William Wordsworth, women's equality
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A Film about Noticing Life’s Small Graces: Woody Allen’s “Whatever Works” (2009), Starring Larry David, is a Funny and Profound Meditation on Existence
Woody Allen’s movie, Whatever Works, offered up in the fall of 2009, sassed and summarily dismissed by critics, and quickly sent by SONY to DVD, was seen at home by my wife and I last night. We loved it. And laughed throughout. And … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, Camus, existentialism, film, happiness, irony, Keats, love, movies, philosophy, psychology, woody allen
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Prometheus Unbound 