Reversal

In the card game Uno there is a card that doesn’t directly assist the player but changes the nature of the game. If you play the Reverse card, the order of play swings back the other direction, from clockwise to counter or vice versa. …

Art and Artist

How do you teach Wallace Stevens? Or Picasso? Both undeniably important in their fields but those same fields were sown with the blood and suffering of others. Can a racist have nuance? Does an abuser have a soul, an inner light, a path to Understanding?…

on hubris

ayjay has a post on social media and hubris, on the hubris of believing we can engage with twitter, for example, and remain unchanged. it is a good post with much to think on. …