Inisherin is an island off the coast of an island, which is itself an island detached from a slightly larger island, which is, if you’ll bear with me just a moment longer, patient friend and reader, a third island separated from the land-locked continent of Europe. This, I assure you, is more than a mere …
The Banshees of Inisherin: One of the Year’s Best Films Read More »
The good people of Pennsylvania, although ignorant, do have, unlike their more unenlightened neighbors across the Delaware River in the state of New Jersey, an inborn ability to grasp the truth. In them, but not in us, there’s an instinctive talent to comprehend objective reality, an eye capable of detecting subtle but incontrovertible truths to …
If People are Kept Ignorant Long Enough, Anything is Possible Read More »
(From my podcast, Pneuma by Daniel Finneran) Hello all, and welcome to this episode of Pneuma. I’m your humble host, Daniel Finneran, and I’m honored to be joined by you today. The subtitle of a recent episode, “Guided Beach Meditation” contained the following three words: the sand, the sea, and the sublime. For a treatment …
How to Think about the Sublime and Beautiful: Aesthetics for Everyone Read More »
From my sister site, Pneuma. The following is the transcript of my latest “meditation”. Hello my friends, and welcome to Pneuma. I’m your host, Daniel Finneran, and I’m honored to have been invited into your headspace for a little while, into that vast, shifting, tempestuous ocean of fear, hope, love, and doubt, by which your …
Guided Meditation For When You’re On An Airplane Read More »