The season of Winter must be the most under-appreciated season of the year, yet its harsh conditions and general starkness contains unexpected beauty and lessons of the profundity of “letting go and letting be” and of the value of emptying, of the natural retreat of color, of silence and inwardness. Like the natural seasonal references […]
In reference to the idea of doing most things, I still unashamedly answer, that frankly, “I’d rather be reading”. As Benjamin Disraeli remarked to questions regarding his origins “I was born in a library”, I would say that my curiosity and more specifically my desire for knowledge of the world and the history […]
The holiday of Halloween has to be the strangest American export to the world. As globalization facilitates the Americanization of more and more world cultures, Halloween is becoming adopted by more cultures without the faintest idea of what it all means or signifies. x One of my most distinct first memories of this life […]
Summer is the one season whose relationship with time is mysteriously dream-like, where leisure, idleness, pleasure and enjoyment come to the forefront, unbound by the awareness of endings, awash in sunny travel reminiscences of childhood, flooded in a sweet silent oblivion that is unaware of succession whose bright mid-day amusements secretly rise flooding the banks […]
At a time when more and more Americans are choosing to refer to themselves as non-religious but spiritual, which only makes me wonder what being “spiritual” means to them and especially to the post-millennial “e-generation” or more recently the “selfie-(look at me) generation.” Moving back to the Houston home that I grew up in […]
By the time this appears in print, the wistfully evocative season of autumn will have faded to Winter and the year will have changed. Autumn is considered the most aesthetic of the seasons in the scheme of traditional Japanese aesthetics and the natural languishing of organic energies signals the recollection of experience and the withdrawal […]
It would be a refreshing change to see more idealism in the world today and a quest for depth and meaning as opposed to a fashion statement, fatalism, terror, disaster along with the pervasive shallowness of the past decade of the new millennium. a If the digits are added in 2014, they add up to […]
Can we be alone without being lonely? This is a question that has been on my mind for quite some time now – actually all my life that I have lived in Houston. Do we always have to have company on a weekend? Do we really have to always bring a date to an […]