Tag: Relationships

• December 24, 2025

  Whatever Happened To Work, Friendship, & Family?

  Charles Taylor argued quite convincingly in Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (1989) that one of the hallmarks of modernity is “the affirmation of ordinary life”: immanent goods like family, friends, and work are to be embraced. This marks the turn toward worldliness that is a fundamental feature still of the…
• March 19, 2012

  Notes on the Milonga: An essay in improvisational dance

  The following is a poem or poems that my friend Carolyn and I wrote late last week. Carolyn’s contribution is in black, mine is in teal. The theme nestled, three-fold, is the following: how will women live today, how will men do so, and how will they (we) live radiantly together? You know that our…