Author Archives: bryan

If a luxury is “a pleasure out of the ordinary allowed to oneself,” then today’s luxuries in America include Housing Healthcare Childcare Education Opportunity Food Security In his most recent book “Poverty, By America” Matthew Desmond says, “Poverty isn’t simply … Continue reading →

Imagine a moment. A single, fleeting, beautiful moment. Both sad and joyful, spiritual and indulgent, loving and destructive, bracing and taxing. Just one moment. An epiphany. A bewilderment. An essence. An ideal. A lifetime. An inception. A finality. Instantaneous. Here … Continue reading →

I lost myself for a moment or two one day last week and declared I was in a good mood, cheerful, some might have even said happy. But it wasn’t long before something happened, and I got better. Seriously, I … Continue reading →

Fiona Apple singing Alanis Morissette. Granted, the only Taylor Swift album I have seriously listened to is Folklore, and, at my daughter’s insistence I have watched the film Long Pond Sessions. And, my gut insists this is Fiona singing Alanis. … Continue reading →

Production works to satisfy consumption and consumption works to affirm production. It is better when production works to satisfy consumption and in turn consumption works to affirm production. If they do not work together, in some way communicating with each … Continue reading →