“I am convinced that beauty will save the world. Maybe one person at a time, but it will save the world.” Renzo Piano, Italian architect
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Meditations
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The silliest line of the week came in the form of a review of “Interstellar,” a recently released echo of that unsurpassed science fiction epic, “2001, A Space Odyssey.” Here’s…
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About a dozen vultures are circling lazily in a gentle breeze over the gorge in the relatively unspoiled canyon of Upper Park. They are graceful searchers for gruesome remains. Without…
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If the events of recent months and years have demonstrated anything, it is that the Enlightenment ideals of reason and human rationality cannot hold sway over the destructive momentum of…
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Autumn is at its peak in northern California, and the normally muted colors in this Mediterranean climate are more intense than usual this year. A path behind the entrance is…
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Like most men of his generation, Roy had never talked about his experiences during World War II. But a few months before his death, we walked, he talked and I…
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Was the crucifixion the culminating event of Jesus’ mission? Or did things go horribly wrong with his torture and death?
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There’s been widespread indifference to the crash of a test flight of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceship, only months before it was it was to carry deep-pocketed celebs into…