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“My greatest and yet most horrible gift is the selfsame one vouched Cassandra: I read the writing on walls waaaaay before the fact. I see, smell, taste what is coming. And I respond, react, acknowledge, notice, witness. Sometimes, I even get out of the way of oncoming buses.” Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Ruminant With A View by [...]

The Highest Cauldron by Anita Sullivan “To say how many green-greys there are is impossible.” From the Letters of Vincent van Gogh  EUGENE Oregon—(Weekly Hubris)—5/14/121–I’m listening to Grigory Sokolov play Bach’s “Art of the Fugue,” which is like being present at the Dawn of the World and, for some reason, I think about how I [...]

“Writing is a form of self-display. Self-display of any sort appears to raise the level of dopamine in the brain, much as does the ingestion of food, the acquisition of money or a sexual act.” Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—5/14/12—It’s the fault of the mesolimbic system. That’s the part [...]

The Occidental Ape by Cusper Lynn “Being a consultant is, I admit, difficult to explain to people since there are two things a good consultant generally has to be: over-educated and underpaid. At some point, when enough alphabetti spaghetti accumulates after your name in terms of degrees and certifications, you just are no longer employable.” [...]

Breach of Close by Stefanos Christoforos “. . . we have so little talent for conservation when we are young. We have not yet experienced the irrevocability of loss or realized the sad transience that inheres within our relationships and possessions. The sense of invulnerability that is part of our youth makes us less provident [...]

Out to Pastoral by John Idol “The devil, in fiction and drama, presents a subject worthy of close study, and that has indeed been the case with Dante’s Satan, Marlowe and Goethe’s Mephistopheles, Milton’s Satan, Mark Twain’s, Mysterious Stranger, and Golding’s Lord of the Flies, to list but a few of works in which Satanic [...]

Waking Point by Helen Noakes “. . . is there a world in which/another me resides,/living a life quite different/from mine . . .” Helen Noakes SAN FRANCISCO California—(Weekly Hubris)—5/7/12— “Wondering” Quantum physicists have affirmed what ancient sages knew, that there are parallel worlds, parallel universes. If so, is there a world in which another [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “Over a year ago, I foresaw clearly that Greece, my second homeland, would lose at least a generation—two, most probably. It would lose—to suicide, slow starvation, and silence—everyone over 60, living on pensions, to what Europe euphemistically calls ‘The Crisis.’ It would also lose those 45 to 60.” [...]

Dolors & Sense  by Sanford Rose “. . . the crucial point is that unless the government stimulates now in order to lift output, future output will unquestionably fall, and probably by a lot more than 1 percent.” Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—5/7/12—The morons who appear to control Washington’s political and legislative life are ruining [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis “. . .instead of following Eckhard Tolle’s advice and living in and for the moment, we found ourselves traveling back in time to other May Days. It was not a longing for the past; we were simply reminiscing, reliving sweetness and fun.” Diana Farr Louis [...]