Eternally Provençal

A generational love affair

5 Reasons to Slow Down Right Now

Recently, I came down with a cold lasting almost an entire week, and I hardly felt like accomplishing much. While wallowing in sneezing fits and fevered exhaustion is far from how I envisioned summer’s start, I believe that this downtime has served a vital and important…

Beating Trump — Some Unconventional Notions

The issue is not whether Trump can win. He can. It is a battle of narratives and he…

Donald Trump Dreams Kubla Khan

After SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Or, a nightmare on waking. A Fragment.

In New York City Donald Trump 
Made tacky things that all could see 
Where East and Hudson River ran 
Round where where the tallest buildings stand
 And…

The elites changed before there was an Internet

The elites changed before there was an Internet. If we date real internet from the 90s we can date the elite change to post-WW2 with a real spike in the 1970s. I venture to suggest that the one percent now is made up primarily of the elite that…

Jesus Moves Slowly into Teaching

Jesus moved slowly into teaching.

Jesus — “He Is Different”

“He is different,” Peter said.

I venture to include in this narrative an ongoing commentary on why what I am writing differs radically from the texts on which it is based.

Good can only mean one thing

Good can only mean one thing. (Spoiler alert I have derived some thinking from Alexander among others and Alexander is pertinent to the global future for sure, particularly in terms of polity.)

Jesus Mission is Presaged

A few weeks turned into several months and, during that period in Capernaum, a few things transpired: