When your life takes you places. Or, on localism and the ambivalence of the green mobile intellectual… One of the paradoxes of environmental scholarship is that, for obvious reasons, many of us favor localism over globalism, community solutions over international policy crafting (though we obviously recognize the need for the latter), and living-in-place over a […]
Posts Tagged ‘Leonard Cohen’
“Then we take Berlin…”
Posted in Academe, tagged Berlin, Cinepoetics Centre for Advanced Film Studies, Fulbright, globalism, Leonard Cohen, localism, New Hampshire, personal, Robert Fripp, Vermont on July 26, 2022 | 1 Comment »
Earth Day dream, with St. Leonard of Westmount
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged communal apartments, Earth Day, Irving Layton, Kiev, Kyiv, Leonard Cohen, Pope Francis, Radio Moscow, Radio Moskva, St. Leonard of Westmount, Ukraine, Vydubychi monastery on April 22, 2020 | 1 Comment »
I dreamt that Leonard Cohen appeared by my bedside. He smiled and reassured me that things will be alright: “They will all have been beautiful in the end.” I wanted to ask him something, but wasn’t sure what. Then he was gone. The radio (it was Radio Moskva, from back when I spent a fall […]