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Archives for July 2016

Jul 29 2016

Jack Kerouac: Alone on a Mountaintop

Tom Palumbo, 'Jack Kerouac' - The Culturium
Tom Palumbo, Jack Kerouac.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

The art of being on one’s own

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: alone on a mountaintop, american, beat generation, buddhism, diamond sutra, jack kerouac, lonesome traveler, prose, short story, tom palumbo, travel

Jul 22 2016

Andrei Tarkovsky: Cinematic Genius

‘Andrei Tarkovsky’ - The Culturium
Andrei Tarkovsky.
Photograph: Festival de Cine Africano de Córdoba, [CC BY-SA 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

How Russian filmmaker turned movie making into transcendental art

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film, Literature · Tagged: andrei tarkovsky, movie, nonfiction, prose, russian, sculpting in time, stalker

Jul 15 2016

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

Eugene Delacroix, ’Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius' - The Culturium
Eugene Delacroix, Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How a Roman emperor stirred the hearts and minds of his people

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: essay, marcus aurelius, meditations, nonfiction, philosophy, prose, roman, stoicism

Jul 08 2016

Upahar: Bright Like a Million Suns

Upahar, ‘Bright Like a Million Suns' - The Culturium
Paula Marvelly, Bright Like a Million Suns.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

A musical rendition of the poetry of Saint Kabir

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film, Literature, The Performing Arts · Tagged: arunachala, bright like a million suns, english, indian, inside the taj mahal, music, paul horn, tiruvannamalai, upahar, video

Jul 01 2016

Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, ’Leo Tolstoy' - The Culturium
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Leo Tolstoy.
Photograph: [Public Domain]
Wikimedia Commons

How the fear of dying becomes a gateway to the joy of living

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: fiction, ivan ilyich, leo tolstoy, prose, russian, short story

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