The Goddess Flora, detail from Primavera by Sandro Botticelli HOW HIPPIES MAY STILL SAVE THE WORLD Shortly before the Era of Social Distancing began, my friend Bill Faricy and I were eating granola for breakfast and we got to thinking about hippies and what we have given to the world. Granola, for one. […]
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Encyclopædia Jonnica Foreword “Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.” —Walt Whitman We spend our lives gradually refining our understanding of what’s going on here, through our experiences, our reading, and our conversations with others. Then we die and it all goes “Poof!” This is
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“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now,” he said. We did and we did. The actor playing Marc Antony is 34 years old. He has spent the last 17 of those years in prison, which is where Nancy and I were watching this production of Julius Caesar. After the performance, the actors talked
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