The search for meaning in cultural, artistic and dream imagery
Last night, I saw the new movie “The Spirit,” based on Will Eisner’s comic books and I just didn’t get it. At first, when I saw the Octopus’s henchmen — Pathos, Ethos, Logos — I thought, okay, this might be interesting symbolically. Three methods of persuasion and all that. The movie portrayed death as a female water [...]
Just like I do every holiday season, a couple days ago I put a fresh evergreen and pine-cone wreath on my door. It’s a tradition for me, but I realized it’s a tradition I don’t know anything about. I’ve read that wreaths were our first crowns and were set upon the heads of those we [...]
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