Category: Essays

Parabola at Fifty!

The first ten years

In Time

Screenshot from the trailer for Alfred Hitchcock’s film The Birds (1963)

An acclaimed director on time in art and cinema

A New World

Photograph by Neom. Unsplash.com

To heal, we must feel

What Is Time?

Big Bang. Cédric Sorel, 2008. Wikimedia Commons

A panoramic overview

The Harvard Gurdjieff Conference

Photograph by Ashley Zigman

Notes from a Centennial, December 4-5, 2024

The Transforming Power of Great Sorrow | Mary A. Osborne

Madonna della Pietà. Michelangelo, c. 1499. St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City. Wikimedia Commons. Photo by https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jean-Christophe_BENOIST. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

A vibrant meditation on Pietà, grief, and growth

Longing for Being | Tracy Cochran

Lake George and the Village of Caldwell (detail). Thomas Chambers, mid-nineteenth century. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Wikimedia Commons. Source/Photographer: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., online collection. Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

At home with past, present, future

The Unanswered Question | Kent Jones

Taconic State Parkway, Putnam County. Photograph by David W. Haas. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Wikimedia Commons. Photo by David. W. Haas. This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).

From absence to presence

Lament and Praise for the Earth | Trebbe Johnson

Elk in the Bitterroot River at Sula, Montana, during a fire, year 2000. Photograph by John McColgan, fire-behavior analyst with the BLM’s Alaska Fire Service. Wikimedia Commons. Author: John McGolgan—edited by Fir0002.

A passionate prayer for what is lost and what is found

Searching for Private Driscoll | Brenton MacKinnon

View of names etched into the granite face of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Licensed licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial_reflection_in_low_light.jpg

Paying respects