Expanding Eyes: The Newsletter
A short time ago, on reaching the age of 80, Jane Brody published an essay called “How to Age Gracefully” in the New York Times. Feedback on the discussion board, which now numbers over 1700 comments, has been overwhelmingly positive, but there are also occasional exasperated an…
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To those interested in my theme of imagination as the home of human life I have recommended the accessible and delightful little book The Educated Imag…
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In my last newsletter, commemorating Labor Day, I spoke of the cult of overwork in the United States, contrasting it with the failed prophecy in the 19…
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On Monday, the United States celebrates Labor Day, designated a national holiday in 1894, celebrating the dignity and worth of labor and the working cl…
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This week I returned to teaching at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where I was a student from 1969 to 1973 and a ful…
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This week’s newsletter is about ghosts, and, yes, it no doubt should have come out last week, on Friday the 13th. But it was a matter of timing: at tha…
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In 1951, scholar-guru Alan Watts published a book called The Wisdom of Insecurity. No security is possible in this world, Watts said, and the quest to …
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Readers interested in the themes of this newsletter—imagination, literature, and mythology—will be interested in a new film that has been garnering a f…
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