Bringing Fenrir Home: What My Dog Has Taught Me
A week after adopting our puppy, Fenirir, the cat is still alive and we’ve all learned some valuable lessons. Here is what my dog has taught me in his short time with us.
MUSINGS
Sharing stories of beauty and thoughts on aesthetics
Sensuous Laundry: Art as Skill and the Domestic Aesthetic
For about as long as humans have contemplated the nature of life, love, and existence, we have pondered over the…
Art of the Sublime: The Awesome Beauty of the American West
The concept of the sublime has a long history in Aesthetics and philosophical inquiry more broadly. Though it has waned…
Aesthetics: A Brief Introduction Part Two
In my previous post on Introduction to Aesthetics, I lamented the commandeering of the term aesthetics by Instagram influencers and…
Aesthetics: A Brief Introduction
A brief introduction to the study of aesthetics, aesthetic judgement, and the nature of beauty.
Ode to Odin: A Story of Our Meeting
I found him as a stray kitten on the side of a rural Alabama road one winter night. Caught in the beam of my headlights, the approaching purr of my motor