The New Yorker sent me an article on philosophical counseling, and The Nation had an article on Kierkegaard and despair that finally convinced me to be interested in him. The “sickness unto death” is the loss of self. There is much to consider in it.
Also, speaking of things I learn about from magazines, I’d like to see this exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, about radical art during the Depression. I learned about it from The Nation, so I guess I am glad I still subscribe.
This year I gave up at last and got digital subscriptions to the NYT and NOLA. I don’t use them much, and I need to remember. And it’s time to consider my New Yorker subscription. I always had it as a gift, but the gift-giver is dead and my subscription is coming to an end (it must have been a two-year subscription, since my father died June 28, 2022). It costs $170, I am informed, to renew. That is a lot, should I do it? Perhaps yes, in part as a connection to Dad.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 