Silences And Sounds

In my Western Art Music seminar (a writing seminar, might I add), we started the term with the early symphony – a little Sammartini, a lit...

The leper house sits at the edge of the village – more accurately, beyond it. It’s a ramshackle structure, visibly outside the rhythms of ...

The “write it perfectly” trap reached out and caught me yesterday. It’s hard to write when every sentence feels like it needs to be perfec...

The Thalbach Segen for the Mass The first half of this Segen – which I posted about last week – establishes its logic through enclosure...

A “Segen” is a prayer genre that combines words, gestures, and formulas to bring about a positive end such as divine grace, desired happine...

It is the first day of the second quarter of the 21st Century, and thus a time for a fresh new start. I’ll begin here with a bit of mate...

I have committed enough prose here this year that the process of looking back was actually helpful for me – and I hope it surfaces some th...