Latest blog post Please dip into my second reflection. “The world is too much with us; late and soon, / Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; / Little we see in Nature that is ours; / We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!” Ouch! A contemporary lament for our materialism and…

According to Juliet, nothing at all. She’s besotted with Romeo for who he is, not what he’s called. But she’s in denial. She’s Capulet, he’s Montague, their names spell “enemy” to their feuding families, and this will be the young lovers’ undoing. Her philosophical premise, “That which we call a rose / By any other…