Icons, Populism, and Iconoclasm

Introduction Since the earliest recorded times, the human story has been passed down by cave paintings, drawings, carvings, sculpture, oral stories, music, and eventually written texts to enable cultures to exist in continuity while still evolving towards a better state.  Common yet incorrect beliefs notwithstanding, our most remote ancestors did not convey gods as the…

Addictis

I sat down wondering what I’d write and the Requiem Mass, Dies Irae, “voca me”, call me,  sprang into my head, particularly the verse talking about the enslaved or sentenced “addictis”, Mozart fans will recognized the tune in my head.  But it is not about the Dies Irae, the day of wrath – Judgement day…