Occasional Writings

Over the years I’ve been inspired to write reflections, reactions, comments, remembrances in various forms; what might be called “occasional writings.” Some are personal, some rants, some attempts at clever or engaging writing. In the spirit of a hoarder I collect them.

  • Humble Hymn to Humans (2022) PDF
  • Honest Reflections on Legacy (March 2020) PDF
  • “Gesture Posture Prosthesis: Religious Studies in the Digital Age” Spring 2013  PDF
  • “Myth and the Impossibles”  Spring 2013   PDF
  • “Dead Man” 2007,2009 poetryPDF
  • “The Look” 2005,2009 fiction PDF
  • “’Afro-Brazilian Dance’ or better ‘Euro-American-Afro-Brazilian Dance’” 1995, 2009 essayPDF
  • “The Glory, Jest, and Riddle: Stephen Hawking and A Brief History of Time” 1988, 2009 academic essay PDF
  • “Dancing and the Poetics of Place” 2009 academic essay PDF
  • “Dancing as Making” 2009 academic essay PDF
  • “Dancing the Rhythms of Life” 2009 book precis PDF
  • “Go Up Into the Gaps:  The Play of Native American Religions”  2009 academic essay PDF
  • “Encore-Life: An Introduction” 2009 essay PDF
  • “The Salsa Connection” 2008 – 2009 12-part blog series PDF
  • “Brain Body Movement” 2009 Lecture Series Select Passages from E-Book PDF
  • “Charles Sanders Pierce:  Play and the Logic of Discovery” 2009 academic essay PDF
  • “Play and the Future of the Study of Religion … and the Academy”  2009    PDF
  • “The Powerful Play Goes On: Friedrich Schiller to Jacque Derrida on Play” 2009 academic essay PDF
  • I don’t want to be a Mystic! (July 30, 2012) PDF
  • Giftwrap PDF
  • Cyborgs R Us PDF
  • Enhancing in the Fat Present PDF
  • Religion Writer PDF
  • A Horse is an Automobile without Wheels PDF
  • Origins and Evolution: Writing in the Long View PDF
  • “Remembering” PDF
  • Christmas Conspiracy PDF
  • “The Place” and the Gore Scholarship PDF
  • That Little Thing (Dec 18, 2010) PDF
  • My Great Awakening (Dec 18, 2010) PDF
  • Cowries on an African Bracelet (Dec 10, 2010) PDF
  • Spooked on Halloween (Nov 3, 2010) PDF
  • The Incipience of Dancing (Sept 28, 2010) PDF
  • Michel Serres and Coenaesthesia (Aug 28, 2010) PDF
  • Writing is Gesture: Leroi-Gourhan (Aug 26, 2010) PDF
  • Education is Not Information (Aug 26, 2010) PDF
  • How to Save the University: Lessons from the Possible Saving of News (Aug 26, 2010) PDF
  • The Future of the University:  Writing Conventions (Aug 26, 2010) PDF
  • Coenaesthesia (Aug 16, 2010) PDF
  • The Example: The Implications of Exemplification (Nov 11, 2009) PDF
  • Bias as Interest (Nov 11, 2009) PDF
  • The New Education: Digital Media Enables Whole Bodies-1 (Aug 10, 2009) PDF
  • Children, Imagination, and Philosophy (Aug 11, 2009) PDF
  • Crisis and Opportunity (Aug 11, 2009) PDF