by Charles Cameron | Jul 25, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — for those wishing for discourse above the political fray ] . Yesterday, Sunday, I was going to post a “Sunday surprise” about a voice that transcends that of Donald Trump — the voice of Alison Balsom, trumpeter...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 8, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — at the heart not of the political entity, Iran, but of the Persian culture and people, can be found a king’s ransom in poetry and song ] . The sensual and the spiritual meet, melt, meld, merge, and dare I say it, emerge to suit each...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 8, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — piecing together some background on a remarkable and requently misunderstood faith ] . ** Philip Kreyenbroek opens his book, Yezidism: its background, observances & textual tradition, with the words: There is probably no factor that...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 5, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — of the Temple Mount and Noble Sanctuary, by way of Bamiyan and Timbuktu, the Cordoba Mezquita and Cathedral ] . The Temple Mount / Noble Sanctuary, then and now ** Today as I write this, it is Tisha b’Av — the day on which the...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 21, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a DoubleQuote in two YouTube videos ] . Today I’ll offer two YouTube videos that beg to be considered together — or at least, I think they do. Why? because they each suggest an “essential ingedient” in life, and...
