by rosswcalvin | Jan 29, 2022 | Global Macro, Investment
“… Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” -Keats The Sun is the Apex Generator of Information From the monatomic, fusing lighter into heavier elements, the Sun paves the way for planets, carbon’s...
by rosswcalvin | Nov 23, 2021 | Poetry
Loss is a strange thing. We want the thing possessed by a departed friend to remain true about the world. Yet despite our memory and the many sweet gifts they gave us, we somehow imagine the world will no longer carry the beauty they embodied. We want the gifts they...
by rosswcalvin | Oct 25, 2021 | Architecture, Morocco
“It’s alright for the beggar to brag that he is a King today. His royal tent is a shadow thrown by a cloud; his throne room is a sown field.” -Hafez In Persian poetry and North African architecture, the garden is forever celebrated. The supreme setting for the art of...
by rosswcalvin | Oct 8, 2021 | Prometheism
“In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God and the word was God.” -John 1:1 A Priori The logos. The original intent. The primordial sense for beauty; a priori and non-contingent. Each of us possess this quality. It is the internal generator of the image...
by rosswcalvin | Oct 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
As the United States is at the lowest level of forward military deployment in 90 years, with an extreme aversion to new overseas involvement among conservative voters, the US as financial clearinghouse and security guarantor for global trade is receding rapidly....