One Small VoicePeter Saint-Andrehttps://stpeter.im/The journal of Peter Saint-Andre - philosopher, technologist, musician.https://stpeter.im/journal/https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/2026-03-01Renewed Commitmentstag:stpeter.im,20322026-03-012026-03-01In ancient Rome, March was the first month of the year (that's why October, November, and December were the 8th, 9th, and 10th months). Thus from a certain perspective March 1st is New Year's Day - a time of longer days, returning light, fresh growth, new life, and renewed commitments....Sources of Solacetag:stpeter.im,20312026-02-162026-02-16It's been a long two weeks since my dear Elisa passed away. It goes without saying that losing your partner in life is a harrowing experience. Yet in the midst of the darkness there are rays of light and sources of solace. Here are a few that have soothed me in my time of grief:...The Final Thirdtag:stpeter.im,20302026-02-092026-02-09My dear Elisa's passing last week has brought an entire epoch of my life to an abrupt end. This rupture has re-opened my eyes to the inescapable fact that my sands too are running. Given that I'll turn sixty about six months from now, I've realized that the next epoch is the final third of my life....Elegy for Elisatag:stpeter.im,20292026-02-032026-02-03
Her sands have run; her thread has reached its end.
The woman whom I singled out to stride
With me through time, together at my side,
Is wife no more, nor life, nor soul, nor friend.
...Flattery vs. Freedomtag:stpeter.im,20282026-01-262026-01-26Related to my post "Aristotle on Freedom" last year, here is a timely quote from Book V of Aristotle's Politics on the free person's innate resistance to tyranny, founded in that illustrious but elusive character trait known as greatness of soul:...Back to the Futuretag:stpeter.im,20272026-01-252026-01-25About 110 years ago (in America we can conveniently date it from the 1913 Armory Show), the shock troops of aesthetic Modernism blew it all up. Disgusted with third-rate late Romantics, this self-proclaimed avant-garde decreed the destruction of meter in poetry, tonality in music, depiction in painting and sculpture, and in all the arts what they derided as the banality of beauty. Instead of seeking regeneration through artistic movements within the broad framework of what had been built up and bequeathed to them over thousands of years, they decided (for reasons I don't fully understand) that we needed to destroy everything first in order to create anew....