Archive - Month: June 2021

Flex the Imagination

Dixit is a board game, but I treat it like a stroll for the imagination. The image includes three of my favorite cards, hard to pick out of the huge stack of equally fascinating mini artworks....

Wonder Full

‘Tis the season of overwhelm. So I reach for grounding. One place I consistently find it is in the words of Abraham Joshua Heschel. Heschel was a Jewish theologian and philosopher who escaped the...

What Do We Know?

Alicia Keys’ latest album, Here, came out a couple weeks before the election. Listening then, I loved it. Listening now, I am grateful for it. It’s beautiful, stripped down to its bones, and...

When Wine Speaks

Amor Towles has the kind of name I would expect from a masterful novelist, distinguished and full of gravitas. With just two novels to date (Rules of Civility and most recently A Gentleman...