Clearing Ground First Stirrings of Spring

My first Substack article, and offering. Enjoy!

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Clara Mattei: capitalism is not natural - it’s enforced YouTube video by Channel 4 News

I found this interview as a possible turning point beyond the current right-vs-left political divide. It’s worth considering, especially as more continues to be revealed about the widening global wealth gap.

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“The point of intersection of the timeless with time, is an occupation for the saint.” “The Dry Salvages” (Four Quartets): T.S. Eliot
#FourQuartets #mystics #poetry

The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov” Although Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote with wildness and urgency, he patiently insisted on asking an essential question: What are we living for?

Some of the characters in “The Brothers Karamazov” rank all the way up there with Shakespeare’s creations, but it isn’t dominated by a single protagonist like Hamlet or Othello, Karl Ove Knausgaard writes. It is the opposite: a collective novel. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/NqJked

Obama: As for the president, he has been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes and gold plating the Oval Office and building a ballroom… If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry. He will save you a dance.