Welcome Your Confusion as a Guest

Welcome Your Confusion as a Guest, is a poem by Ellen Reiss, which is stirring in its sentiment and music, and its meaning has affected various students at South Wales University. See film by Georgia James.

What Can Baseball Teach Us about Ourselves?

At this time as baseball is so much on people's minds, and Americans are watching what happens in the World Series, I thought of this article by Michael Palmer on baseball's great Babe Ruth

--his Farewell, and wanted people to know about it.  Click here to read it.

16 Tons - Sung by Timothy Lynch, Bennett Cooperman, and Kevin Fennell

This song was performed at the Teamster Womens Conference.  I had liked 16 Tons, but I hadn't really listened to the lyrics and seen the real meaning of it.  In the comment to it we see how the ill will of profit economics is at the heart of it and what Aesthetic Realism explains: that the basis of profit economics--contempt for people--can no longer work in the world.

Here is 16 Tons, sung by members of the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Co.

"Rock 'n' Roll, the Opposites, & Our Greatest Hopes--A Celebration!

If you live in the NYC metropolitan area come hear and see "Rock 'n' Roll, the Opposites, & Our Greatest Hopes--A Celebration! to be presented by the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Co. on Sunday, July 29th at 2:30 pm.  "Why has Rock 'n' Roll affected people so much?" is a question that will be rousingly, joyfully, movingly answered with wonderful singing and commenting on songs from the '50s and '60s' and to the present.

Place:

Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene Street
New York, NY 10012  In SoHo, off W. Houston
212.777.4490

Runaround Sue - Kevin Fennell & Bennett Cooperman

I love the song "Runaround Sue" performed in the show "Rock 'n' Roll, the Opposites, & Our Greatest Hopes--A Celebration! by Kevin Fennell and Bennett Cooperman, with Timothy Lynch and Christopher Balchin of the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Co. Here it is on YouTube

Magnolia Tree at Grace Church

I love this Magnolia tree, which I pass often on my way to work. It takes my breath away and makes for a large emotion of pleasure and gratitude. "All beauty is a making one of opposites," Eli Siegel stated "and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves." I think this Magnolia tree is a beautiful oneness of delicacy and strength, dark and light. It's pale, pink petals are delicate and they emerge from dark, strong branches. It is one of my teachers.


Lynette Abel

Rock 'n' Roll, the Opposites, & Our Greatest Hopes--A Celebration!

"Breathless," was a song performed at the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company's presentation of Rock 'n' Roll, the Opposites, & Our Greatest Hopes--A Celebration!--August 8, 2010

Click here to see it on YouTube


Videography: Robert Murphy