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If Sisyphus were here, he’d keep shoveling

We are born to persevere, even when we know it won’t do much good. We keep pushing against obstacles, and there is value in that.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Mar 07, 2015 Essays 2 minute read

For the roses. (All photos by the author)

The 2015 Philadelphia Flower Show

Gone to flowers, everyone

The theme of this year’s Philadelphia Flower Show is “the movies,” although the organizers are being somewhat disingenuous in that only Disney movies are included. The Disney-only focus allows for marvelous flights of fancy but limits the emotional range, and emotional maturity, of the entries.

Joanna Rotté

Feb 28, 2015 Essays 5 minute read

Who’s behind the mask? (Christian Bale in “The Dark Knight Rises”; © 2012 - Warner Bros. Pictures)

Will the real Dark Knight please stand up?

The League of Arch Villains Who Think Batman Sucks reach a surprising conclusion at their monthly meeting.

Perry Block

Feb 10, 2015 Essays 4 minute read

Sammy Sheik as Mustafa in “American Sniper” (photo © 2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)

Iraqi Sniper

Suppose there was somehow a viable movie industry in the shambles that is Iraq. Suppose a movie was made there called Iraqi Sniper. What would it be like?

Bob Ingram

Feb 06, 2015 Essays 3 minute read

Consider the albatross. (Photo of the wandering albatross by Dimitri Damasceno via Creative Commons/Wikipedia)

Trouble in paradise

There we were, reading an 18th-century poem on a smartphone while driving an electric car past lava tubes that, two million years ago, bubbled with volcano guts. Suddenly, time felt not like a continuum, but more like a pleated fabric, the long-ago pressed hotly against the now.

Anndee Hochman

Feb 03, 2015 Essays 6 minute read

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Who would Heidegger root for? (Drawing of Martin Heidegger by aeneastudio via Creative Commons/Flickr)

Heidegger and the Super Bowl

Thinking football

It might be possible to argue that Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is the Heidegger of football, if anyone could actually figure out what Belichick is thinking.

AJ Sabatini

Jan 30, 2015 Essays 5 minute read

Mother and Twins Monument by Henry Dmochowski Saunders, commemorating his wife and children. The site overlooks the bend in the Schuylkill River where the twins drowned. (Photo by Smallbones via Creative Commons/Wikipedia)

The age of mothers

In the weeks after losing her mother, the author explores a pair of historic Philadelphia cemeteries.

Joanna Rotté

Jan 30, 2015 Essays 5 minute read

An unindicted coconspirator? (photo by Frances Sonne via Creative Commons/Wikimedia)

"Justice" for Joe Paterno?

It was fair to reverse the disqualification of current players from bowl game eligibility: They played no part in the Sandusky scandal. It wasn’t fair to reverse the change in Paterno’s numbers: That was only a slap on the wrist for a powerful man who otherwise escaped punishment for the terrible things that happened on his watch.

Steve Cohen

Jan 22, 2015 Essays 4 minute read

How much "self" remains in someone with Alzheimer's? (Julianne Moore in "Still Alice")

Thoughts on aging

What lasts

The older I get, the more I realize that the “me” who looks out through my eyes has traits that have nothing to do with chronology. I may look ridiculous if I invest too heavily in the media version of beauty, but inner beauty is something I can take with me to my grave, even as the inevitable decline of the rest of me hastens on.