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“There’s a certain slant of light on winter afternoons" - Emily Dickinson As I sit down to write this, we are having our first snow flurry of the season. It’s not winter yet, of course, but the bare trees and...

“Out beyond ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” - Rumi. I wouldn’t blame you for involuntarily dry-heaving at the notion of listening to Madonna read Rumi to the new age pulse of synth...

“Everything is interwoven, and the bond is holy; and there is hardly anything unconnected with every other thing. For all things have been co-ordinated, and they combine to make up the world. For there is one universe made up of...

We have just cleared a one-week heat wave here in Bucks County, and with the hot, humid weather in the rear view mirror, I am officially declaring myself ready for autumn. Hot beverages, jackets, stews, cozy fires, and the gentle...

  In Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars and tenets of stoic philosophy. Although it was essentially a journal and never intended for a general readership, it has become one of the most widely read philosophy works in the world. ...

The final line of The Great Gatsby, the Fitzgerald novel that defined the jazz age. It was the era that ushered in modernity, a time of material excess, liberation, and intoxication. But even in the midst of the party, Fitzgerald could sense the toll...