Isak Dinesen

The moral thrust of Dinesen’s tales leads here, to a representation of life as performance–a necessary fiction. In her pliable and accommodating theater, the truth is found in the design of the stories we tell in order to understand whom we might become. Throughout her career, with both the fiction and nonfiction, Dinesen is urging … More Isak Dinesen

Ramón Fernández

Theatrical distances, bronze shadows heaped On high horizons, mountainous atmospheres Of sky and sea. It was her voice that made The sky acutest at its vanishing. She measured to the hour its solitude. She was the single artificer of the world In which she sang. And when she sang, the sea, Whatever self it had, … More Ramón Fernández

Yoga

Today we are having a yoga class. In this class we will imagine how it would be to go through the days without guilt. I think it would be amazing. I shall not list here the things I feel guilty about. But as I think of them and imagine them leaving me, I become aware … More Yoga