Nov 137 min readOur Place in the UniverseBy Richard Knox A blogger I follow is an amateur astronomer and celestial photographer. His main mission is politics, but at the end of...
Jun 65 min readThe Magic of Tuning In“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.” --- Henry David Thoreau By Richard Knox OK, raise your hand if you’ve never had a terrible,...
Nov 10, 20236 min readSinging a gamut of emotions- By Richard Knox Music is an emotive art. It can arouse a gamut of feelings, touching parts of our soul beyond logic and analysis....
Jun 7, 20239 min readWhat (Only) Music Can DoBy Richard Knox Charles Darwin was prescient about many things, but music was a black box to him. He couldn’t figure out why humans...
Oct 8, 20227 min readImagining a Better World:The Music of Oliver CaplanBy Richard Knox When Oliver Caplan first encountered “Cloud Anthem” – Richard Blanco’s poem reimagining humans as clouds, rain,...
Jun 17, 20225 min readThe Seven: Who They Wereby Richard Knox True to its title, Seven Last Words of the Unarmed contains only the last utterances of the murdered men, as gleaned from...