Author: Dwight

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Meister Eckhart and The Joshua Tree

There was a flurry of news last week celebrating the 30th anniversary of U2’s The Joshua Tree, and it brought back a fond memory I’ve always associated with the album. I hope you’ll indulge this onion-on-my-belt moment… The weekend after the album was released, I caught a flight to spend a weekend with my brother. […]

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Mark Twain’s mullet

Well, not Twain himself, but the mullets he ascribed to nobility in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, that is… About bedtime I took the king to my private quarters to cut his hair and help him get the hang of the lowly raiment he was to wear. The high classes wore their hair […]

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Stone Tablets by Wojciech Żukrowski

Stone Tablets by Wojciech Żukrowski Translation from the Polish by Stephanie Kraft Paul Dry Books, 2016 Paperback, 733 pages One may shake the Ten Commandments in helpless anger, but no one is exempt from them. They are always with us, etched on our consciences; they weigh every action, affixing their sign of approval or condemnation […]