Tag: Modern

Meditations on Modernity: Part 4 #Poetry #Poem #Modern #Day #Life #Community #Present #Mystery

24 Feb 2023

“It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.” Wendell Berry, The Long-Legged House Meditations on Modernity By Vincent H. Anastasi 2023 IV. The Life Let this be the day well done: not the timely completion of all … More Meditations on Modernity: Part 4 #Poetry #Poem #Modern #Day #Life #Community #Present #Mystery

Meditations on Modernity: Part 3 #Poetry #Poem #Modern #Swans #Life #Local #Pub #Medicine

23 Feb 2023

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit Meditations on Modernity By Vincent H. Anastasi 2023 III. The Medicine If I could take the creek to work, I would – hitch a ride with the swans who swam … More Meditations on Modernity: Part 3 #Poetry #Poem #Modern #Swans #Life #Local #Pub #Medicine

Meditations on Modernity: Part 2 #Poetry #Poem #Modern #AI #Mechanization #VR #Life

22 Feb 2023

“But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death Meditations on Modernity By Vincent H. Anastasi 2023 II. The … More Meditations on Modernity: Part 2 #Poetry #Poem #Modern #AI #Mechanization #VR #Life

Meditations on Modernity: Part 1 #Poetry #Poem #Modern #Busyness #Race #GeorgeEliot

21 Feb 2023

“If we had a keen vision of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well-wadded with stupidity.” George Eliot Meditations on … More Meditations on Modernity: Part 1 #Poetry #Poem #Modern #Busyness #Race #GeorgeEliot

The Communion of Quiet #Poetry #Communion #Quiet #Nature

9 Jul 2022

A quiet evening by the open window reading Andrew Klavan’s The Truth and Beauty. The neighbor’s window air conditioner humming incessantly in the background. William Wordsworth’s timely sonnet about the pervasive nature of our modern world. A train whistle in the distance. The bread and the wine. What follows is the synergy of those experiences … More The Communion of Quiet #Poetry #Communion #Quiet #Nature