Category: philosophical counseling

• June 22, 2012

  Heat and Summer Solstice

  I The temperature will itch toward 100 degrees and we will want to itch. The key will be ascesis: to breath and be calm, to be skin. II One day after the Summer Solstice the gods are smiling divinely. Some are in fits. The rest are philosophical: loving the steadiness of breath. III Joan most…
• June 21, 2012

  Old Whitman and me just singing

  Recently old Walt Whitman spoke to me. He said of himself, singing a Song of Myself: Every kind for itself and its own, for me mine male and female,  For me those that have been boys and that love women, For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,…
• June 20, 2012

  Beauty in human frailty

  There is beauty in human frailty if only we look closely. Beauty in human frailty because life is so many things at so many times in so many ways. And there are fathers and mothers and there are lovers and friends. And then there is enmity and tragedy: the shards and stains and yoke torrents…
• June 19, 2012

  Gift economy: A conversation with Jackie Bergman

  A 14 minute conversation with Jackie Bergman from a week ago. In the Conservatory Garden of Central Park, he and I talk about the nature of gift economy. Enjoy. *
• June 18, 2012

  Toward a better understanding of the art of inquiry

  Dear C, You ask what is the difference between friends and conversation partners. That is a very good question. The truth is that I have a hard time distinguishing between the two except by saying that the latter contribute to philosophical life within a gift economy whereas the former quite naturally would not think to…