Category Archives: literature

“Crisis of Masculinity” and Dracula

Posted on May 29, 2013 by forstegrupp

I was reading a New York Times book review (May 12, 2013) called “On the Brink” by Harold Evans as he talks about two books which survey the causes of World War I. Evans notes that in his The Sleepwalkers: … Continue reading →

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Poetry as a Transformation of Mind

Posted on December 3, 2012 by forstegrupp

I just read a New York Times article “Philosophy and the Poetic Imagination: by Ernie Lapore and Matthew Stone about how how poetry demands a certain type of reading which must be cultivated and nourished and sustained. Here is the … Continue reading →

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Haskell and the mandalas of nature

Posted on October 29, 2012 by forstegrupp

I discovered David Haskell in this New York Times Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/science/david-haskell-finds-biology-zen-in-a-patch-of-nature.html?smid=pl-share Here he describes visiting the same place “mandala” for observation and renewal. He has a word press blog “Ramble” which I follow.

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