13 Jan The Myth of Persephone and Demeter
Can this myth assist us in understanding a little better, and in coming to terms with what is happening here?...
Can this myth assist us in understanding a little better, and in coming to terms with what is happening here?...
Words in a book...
Do you ever wake up with a song playing in your head? With lyrics by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, this one, I discovered, was originally recorded as a demo for Dionne Warwick in 1963, and first charted for Lou Johnson in the summer of...
As a child growing up in a valley where diversity was met with suspicion, I learnt, first-hand, about racism. However, I also saw paradoxes within my cocooned world, and turned to STORY to try to understand the conflicted reality surrounding me like a grey pall...
It is an unfinished, personal and spiritual account that was, and still is, at odds with the atheistic and scientific direction of society....
First a note about the painting, Botticelli's Birth of Venus, that serves here as a symbol for Joni Mitchell's song. Both speak of life, love and beauty. For Plato – and so for the members of the Florentine Platonic Academy – Venus had two aspects: she...