Barbara McClung, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: As a new school year begins, it’s a great time to read Eli Siegel’s essay about “Books,” from his Children’s Guide to Parents and Other Matters. I’m a parent and a NYC elementary school teacher, and I love this essay! It’s been so useful to me in showing the… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: In kitchens, bedrooms, living rooms, spouses have complained, “Where are you?! You haven’t been listening to a word I’m saying!” Also, “You’d rather talk than listen!” Couples despair of this painful situation’s ever changing, and the resulting loneliness and resentment are with them daily. What will enable real listening… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: What can music, in all its sublimity and joy, teach us? Is music an escape—or is it a means of making sense of the world, the world in which we often go confusingly from laughing to having deep feelings we don’t understand? Can music even have… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: This all-important and thrilling seminar is about a question that is pulsatingly, teemingly contemporary—though, with all the turbulence about it, the question itself is usually not asked clearly. Aesthetic Realism does ask the question clearly: “Today & Always: What Does a Woman Deserve from… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The answer to the question in the title of this issue—“Humor, Music, & Our Lives: What’s the Relation?”—will astound you and thrill you. For a new and invaluable way of seeing humor, music, and the world they both come from—we passionately recommend this great issue of The Right of Aesthetic… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “How Can a Wife Make Sense of Severity & Sweetness in Herself?”—a question that hits home for every woman—will be the subject of the Understanding Marriage! class on Saturday, Aug 10th, 11 AM-12:30 PM. The class is taught by Barbara Allen, Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman, and other Aesthetic Realism consultants, and… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: Largely, people do not feel that a man and a woman have the same confusions about themselves—the same self-questionings—the same desire to be just and the same feeling of shame because one isn’t. This thrilling seminar not only can have us see that men… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: What have selfies—so au courant—to do with philosophy—with ethics—with the biggest, most pressing matter in everyone’s life? Read “The Eternal, Lively Opposites—& the Selfie,” the amazing and very much needed new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known! The commentary by Ellen Reiss begins: Dear… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Romance: every married couple wants theirs to be, grow, and last. Yet a big worry of many a wife is that romance is fading no matter what she tries—date nights, candlelit dinners, “romantic getaways.” What women most need to know to have deep, exciting romance will be explained with… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “The Opposites, Beauty, Contempt—& Our Lives” is about the largest thing we hope for—a way of seeing the world that’s true and thrilling. In this issue too is a vitally needed explanation of racism. And a jazz musician writes on what he learned about his purpose in art and love—something every musician and… Read more