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The best graduation speech, ever.

Posted on May 18, 2013 by

It’s that time of year.  I seldom pay much attention to graduation speeches.  I can’t remember anything said at my own, nor do any quotes come to mind from celebrities whose commencement addresses get soundbytes played on the news every … Continue reading →

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Jorinda and Joringel: a fairytale from The Brothers Grimm

Posted on May 5, 2013 by

I have seen Jorinda and Joringel (sometimes spelled Jorindel) in many folklore collections, but I always passed it by.  A cursory glance led m to think it was much like Hansel and Gretel, not one of my favorite tales.  I’m not … Continue reading →

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The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats

Posted on April 19, 2013 by

We have all heard and read more words this week than we want or need. The ones that keep coming back to me were written in 1919, in a poem called “The Second Coming,” a haunting vision written by William … Continue reading →

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Economic imaginings

Posted on March 3, 2013 by

The key aim of this blog, as stated on my “About” page, is to look at “the reality in our fantasies and the fantasy in our realities.”  The phrase was inspired by James Hillman, who used the word “fantasy” to … Continue reading →

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Authenticity and folklore

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

In his comment on my review of Once Upon a Time, Calmgrove zeroed in on one of author Max Luthi’s key concepts, that fairytales show us “man’s deliverance from an inauthentic existence and his commencement of a true one.” Luthi … Continue reading →

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Huh, what? Oh yeah, I remember

Posted on February 9, 2013 by

Until the 20th century, most people in the western world believed in objective memory, that what we remember is an accurate mirror of events that actually happened. With the birth of psychoanalysis and concepts of the Id and unconscious mind, … Continue reading →

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