The Secret of The Divine Comedy

Many folks who suffer strokes can never read again. Their eyes just won’t focus on a page. That I could read four months out from the stroke is quite a wonderful thing.

My 23 Favorite Films

Such a list is bogus, of course as it’s a moving target, and so much has to be left out. But, basically, if you see all these you’ll know what’s important to me. It’s annotated, so you can just read my opinion if you like, and not necessarily see the movie.

Recent Poetry, May 2026

Septuagint

If we could see things as they be,
No me, no you, no soup, no traction,
The truth is nonduality,
And love’s the only right reaction.

Class

Social class has been one of my main interests in life. It became an interest as soon as I realized it was a big deal in the USA, where it is said not to exist. Wrong! 

Recent Poetry, March 2026

Louis Armstrong  (1901-1971)

Few knew that
Your first language was Yiddish.
And few remember that stupid
Costume you were once made to wear.

The Trouble with Organized Religion

A few years back, I read a book called The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie. It was a parallel biography of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Flannery O’Connor, and Walker Percy. Four influential mid-twentieth-century Catholics.

Commentary on Psalm 50/51

The reason for the numbering confusion is that the numbering and breakdown of the Psalms is a bit different in the Septuagint version, the Greek translation of the Bible that took place in Alexandria, Egypt,  in the third century and that also set the canon of the New Testament.