An aria I love and think is sublimely beautiful, as millions of people do, is “Nessun Dorma” from Puccini’s last opera Turandot. Here is the beginning sung by the great Luciano Pavarotti with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. I learned from Aesthetic Realism this great principle: “The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one […]

When I first saw the painting “Rhapsody” by the abstract expressionist painter Hans Hofmann, I immediately liked the brightness and variety of the colors and forms.  As I studied it, I saw that this painting affected me because it answers some of the deepest questions of people’s lives—of my life.  I think “Rhapsody” and why […]