The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday June 13th, 2023
Value by Jan Sand
The length of my life has transported me to an area of personal survival in which I am in an extended quest for discovering why and what I am doing here. What is currently valuable to me and what registers as meaningless. In my life, I have explored a number of areas. I have had some success in a few directions and not very much in others and never discovered within myself the powerful driving force that captures many others in their efforts to gain what they so desire. So, I am left with an uncomfortable emptiness as to what it is all about.
Even the most casual survey of the state of current civilization produces much evidence of extraordinary accomplishments of the human animal in comparison to other planetary life. Historical and current life indicates that this most odd creature has yet to produce a reasonable system for granting even a large percentage of its members a decent fulfilling life.
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An den Mond (Version 2) – Under the Moon #poem by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
“Once again you fill up valley and shrub land
Quietly, in brilliant nebulousness,
And dissolve my entire soul
Once and for all,”
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William Butler Yeats: A Road to the Higher Self by Rene Wadlow
William Butler Yeats, whose birth anniversary we mark on 13 June, had three inter-related passions: a revival of Irish culture as a necessary contribution to political independence; an understanding of present disorders and violence as part of a transition to a New Age and a new system of values: a need to find avenues for self-development leading to a Higher Self.
It was as a poet of The Celtic Twilight (1893) stressing the need to revive an understanding of Irish folk culture, largely pagan rather than Roman Catholic that he came to public attention. With the creation of the Abbey Theatre with Lady Gregorry, he tried to bring this conception of Irish culture to a wider public which did not fully understand the use of symbols and symbolic personalities. Yet Yeats was convinced that a cultural renewal was necessary for a solid base for political independence.
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Ghostin’ #66 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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