Faith K. Stern, Aesthetic Realism consultant, created the popular website beautyofnyc.org with her husband, John Stern. She says: When I was growing up in Brooklyn, every summer our family went to Brighton Beach, along with thousands of other people, to relax and have a good time. Yet as I looked at those men and women,… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: This TRO makes thrillingly clear something that has eluded people for centuries: what mind is, what its purpose is; also, what makes that aspect of mind, imagination, good and what makes it go wrong. Through the knowledge told of here, people—we—can finally respect ourselves on a steady basis for how our minds work! This TRO… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: As women know, daughters and mothers, even as they may be very close, can also feel painfully confused about one another. I know from my own life that it’s hard for a daughter to make sense of how much she can be for her mother, feel her mother’s a… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: What big, important meaning does a story by a beloved American writer have for us now? You’ll find out in “Yes, These Opposites Are Ours,” the new issue of TRO. The opposites referred to in that title are the Known and the Unknown—opposites that are in our lives in so many ways,… Read more

Barbara Buehler, NYC planner and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about Marcia Rackow’s important article on Beatrix Potter: As a child, I read Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit over and over. I loved the way these rabbits took on human qualities, and dressed and acted as people did. I now know these delightful creatures… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The new TRO is titled “What Is Love About?” The human hope for love is inescapable—and rightly so: it is central to life. Yet do we know, really, what love is about? This issue prints the 2nd half of Eli Siegel’s great lecture The Furious Aesthetics of Marriage. The difficulties in… Read more

Richita Anderson, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: I love the chapter on “Work” in Eli Siegel’s book Children’s Guide to Parents and Other Matters. As a New York State employment interviewer for many years, I’ve spoken to hundreds of people, including factory laborers, office clerks, bridge builders, engineers, zoo keepers, truck drivers, and others. Through them… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Love—with all the articles, books, and films on the subject—is something people still want desperately to understand. What is love? And what gets in the way of having the real, lasting thing? “Love—and a World to Like” provides the true, deep, logical answers to those questions. It begins the serialization of a… Read more

Architect and Aesthetic Realism consultant Dale Laurin writes about Marcia Rackow’s important article “Claude Monet—Does Art Answer the Questions of Our Lives?”: Like people everywhere, I cared for the paintings of Claude Monet, especially his series on waterlilies and on the Rouen Cathedral. But this wonderful, richly illustrated article by artist and Aesthetic Realism consultant… Read more

Steven Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: What distinguishes a work of true art from something not that? What must be present in a person’s mind, in how he or she sees and feels, for beauty to come to be? As you’ll see in the current TRO, Aesthetic Realism answers these questions magnificently—and… Read more