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“Freud is Not Dead” reads the March 27th cover story of Newsweek. Actually, I don’t want to contemplate whether Freud’s thinking is dead or alive, in or out. What I’d like to behold with you is that couch, the couch, and the antiquities that surround it––as pictured next to Newsweek’s table of contents. Freud had…

“Mommy, what if heaven is all a dream?” my younger son asked Thursday night, knowing that I was going away Friday to be with my 91-year-old father who has been hospitalized again. “Yes, and what if life is all a dream?” I answered, hugging him. He looked up at me as if to say “You’re…

“Spring cleaning is a time to release what we are hiding. The room such things take robs us of new life. Now is the time to gather the old from under those sneaky bushes where things tend to hide. Now is the time to throw the worn into the compost pile. Now is the time…

Let’s change that Passover salutation “Next year in Jerusalem” to “Next year in Montego Bay!” Shall we? For the upcoming Jewish holiday, JewishMusic.com offers an upbeat Reggae Passover CD. (Click on the words “Audio Library” at the top of the page and look for “Reggae.”)

Mystical experiences are a universal, spiritually revelatory phenomenon with all kinds of individual textures––time suddenly comes to a glorious halt, or the world becomes one breathing, whole organism, or the entire cosmos and your place in it immediately make soul-shaking sense. While before you could only hope to stumble upon a passage in someone’s memoir…

“The best reappraisals are born in the worst crisis. It has happened to all of us in relative degrees. Be glad for it and don’t be afraid of being afraid.” –from Marlon Brando to ex-lover Marilyn Monroe in a telegram on February 1961, after she had been hospitalized for nervous collapse and breakdown.

Yesterday Salon posted Steve Paulson’s wonderfully readable interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson, founder of sociobiology and author of “On Human Nature.” Wilson may not say what you want to hear about God’s existence–he’s not so sure he buys it–but he is open to the possibility that a larger, cosmic force started…

One CM reader sides with Mr. Chattering in believing that morning people are born, not made. In fact, Rebecca T. (who ruminates on all kinds of smart things here) says true night people have trouble adjusting in a world that equates productivity and well-being with bouncing out of bed before 7 a.m.: Actually, many people…

Are you a morning person? I pretty much am, which is to say I wake up hungry, filled with curiosity about the weather, eager to roll up the blinds. Mr. Chattering and I have a running disagreement over whether people who are not morning people are born that way and forever stuck needing coffee OR…

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.” –E.B. White
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