Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “The Kind Power of Questions” is the exciting subject of the new issue of TRO. The ability to ask questions, you’ll see, is much more valuable than one may realize! And you’ll learn, too, why this ability has often been misused. Clear, kind questions that enable us to understand… Read more

Michael Palmer, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Many people are troubled by their lack of intensity, by their feeling flat and thinking nothing is worth getting excited about. That was certainly true of me. I thought showing intensity about most things—except sports—was beneath me. Then there were times I showed a great deal of intensity, becoming… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “Questions, Life, & Beauty,” is the new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known. It’s about something moving and hopeful: the fact that we have questions within ourselves all the time, looking for answers. Some seem very ordinary. Others, we may not articulate, but they’re part of who… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: This issue of TRO is about two things that people most often feel are worlds apart: the thought of the great philosophers and your life as you immediately live it every day! A big question philosophy has tried to understand is: do our lives have a… Read more

Lauren Phillips, NYC middle school teacher, writes: The poem “Twenty-one Distichs about Children,” by Eli Siegel, expresses the feelings of a child—and also the meaning of a child—with beautiful respect and depth. I’m grateful for it, as an educator, mother, and now grandmother. When my son was younger, these musical couplets helped me understand him… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: You’ll have a big, wonderful, very important experience as you read “Aristotle & Our Own Lives,” the new issue of TRO. How is ethics present in us, and in the world itself? As Eli Siegel looks, with a new depth of comprehension, at Aristotle’s classic work on ethics, you’ll meet an understand­ing… Read more

Lore Mariano, Technology Trainer (Law Firm) & Application Support Specialist, and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Whenever I visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art I’m astounded by the great variety that’s there. Is there anything all those many artworks have centrally in common? I love the fact that Eli Siegel and Aesthetic Realism describe what beauty is—of any time… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes What is it that makes a book be rightly called “great” and seen as a “classic”? And does that have anything to do with your own hour-to-hour life—including personal hopes and confusions and daily concerns? As the new issue of The Right Of shows, Aesthetic Realism answers… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: This issue of TRO—titled “How Do We Want to See?”—does thrilling new justice to the understanding of people and the value of books. What makes a written work so good it becomes a “classic”? Is there a way of seeing the world and people in these works that we… Read more