The Road

Probably not the best choice given the current climate, but I had started Cormac McCarthy‘s The Road a few months before the Covid quarantine began. The additional forced time inside gave me the opportunity to finish the novel. I had seen the movie, so the angst of not knowing how it would end was notContinue reading “The Road”

INITIATION and TESTING

  ____________________________ I regret not recording where I grabbed this photograph. I believe it was from Life magazine in the late 1970s, taken by Marialba Russo [1] from her study in virility, ritual, and the human need to prove transformation. ____________________________ The latent anthropologist in me laments the lack of rites of passage celebrating importantContinue reading “INITIATION and TESTING”