Backward Mutters

  • The Chaste Beams of the Watery Moon

    If you hadn’t noticed, the Moon is full today. Oberon, in a Midsummer’s Night Dream says the Moon is ‘watery’. Indeed, from our vantage point, it looks to be covered in lakes. Even the ancients noticed the effect the Moon had on the tides. Luna was even imagined to ride…

  • Love is Free?

    “The revolt against vows has been carried in our day even to the extent of a revolt against the typical vow of marriage. It is most amusing to listen to the opponents of marriage on this subject. They appear to imagine that the ideal of constancy was a yoke mysteriously…

  • William and Emily

    “William and Emily” from Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology. My bride and I recited this in a produced recitation of a collection of readings from the work as a whole over twenty years ago. There is something aboutDeath like love itself!If with some one with whom you have known…

  • A Wandering View

    On Thursday night, April 15, you will have a wonderful opportunity to view all the naked eye planets in one night. Via Space.com Here’s a map of the night sky to help guide you. If you stay up all night or rise in the morning to see Jupiter’s ascent. You…

  • The Greatest Problem the Universe Has Ever Known

    “But above all—and here is the real crux of the problem—you cannot find God. You can improve your life, you can decide to be more moral, and you may feel a sense of satisfaction that you are doing very well, but that is not the problem. No; the problem is…