Language-based image-making, image-based language:  We can  compare psychoanalytic work to the connect-the-dots games in children's...

PATHWAYS ON THE JOURNEY “Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Poetry and...

LISTENING TO:  THE MIRACLE WITHIN LANGUAGE Psychoanalysis is a narrative seeking narratives – “tell me a story”. Language is a miracle....

THE GARDEN OF EDEN, THE FLAMING SWORD, THE GARDEN OF EDEN Does each human being have to eventually deal with a realization that the very...

Updated Reviews 01/08/2013 My two volumes of poetry, Mad Crazy Love:  Love Poems and Mad Songs, and Ladder of Words, both published in...

Self and Existence 11/03/2012 I've been having a merry time reading Why Does the World Exist? by Jim Holt, Liveright Publishing, New...

THE EVIL IMPULSE 08/27/2012 Evil impulses are inherent in human nature, as are good impulses. In Hebrew, the evil impulse is called...

CREATIVITY 08/02/2012 When people are creative, in the myriad creative endeavors human beings have discovered and undertaken, they are...

Search For Self 07/01/2012 SEARCH FOR SELF:  WINNICOTT, “ELEANOR RIGBY”, SUFISM, THE IN GATHERING OF SPARKS, TRICKSTER AND THE FOOL IN...

Poetry and Imagination 07/02/2012 “Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Poetry...

Two question marks, face to face, create a heart 06/27/2012 Two question marks on their way down a road encounter each other, decipher...

LIVING IN ETERNITY 04/14/2012 “I’m going to utter perhaps the greatest piece of knowledge anyone can voice…. Do you know that at this...

MAKE A JOYOUS NOISE: POETRY AND MUSIC, NATURAL THERAPY FOR THE TROUBLED SOUL 04/07/2012 David, the psalmist, as a youth, soothed the...