Tomorrowland

Tomorrowland is the saddest of lands. Its original purpose was to showcase how amazing the future was about to be. Adventure, Fantasy, and the Frontier were easy to present. Tomorrow is slippery. Tomorrowland was neglected by the Disneyland’s designers from the get-go, and then over the years, no one quite knew what to do with […]

Sanctuary

When I was nineteen, I spent a lot of time with Duncan Philips. At my college, which was known for its preponderance of black clothing and lesbians, a course in economics was going to be Economics of the Arts. And I was going to study patronage, a subject I knew about only so far as […]

Personification

We do this project. The kids write about a problem they have overcome, creating a symbol to personify that problem so that they think of resolving the situation in a healthy way, in an assertive, active way. So I go around the room to see what they are going to write about. Deaths of […]

End of the Line

Lent is almost over. My practice: daily meditation and daily stretching (physical), daily flossing, daily Lent-specific reading. And facebook only once a day, instead of whenever I get bored. This resulted in me obsessively checking my email instead, to scratch the itch for distraction. Monkey mind is powerful. St. Benedict emphasizes socialization and moderation of […]