New Metaphors, Myths, and Values for a Steady State Future.
This essay was awarded a Mitchell Prize for essays on sustainable futures in 1979, making Robert L. Chianese, Ph. D., a 1979 Mitchell Laureate. It is published in Coomer, James C. ed. Quest for a Sustainable Society. Pergamon Press. New York, 1981, "Values lag behind the genius of technology" --A. Resnais, Hiroshima Mon Amour MYTHS ABOUT THE FUTURE AND PERPETUAL GROWTH Our visions of the future reveal our dreams, fears and realistic expectations about the place and time in w
Baby-Making with Masters and Johnson,1968
Published in the St. Louis Beacon, special to the Beacon 6:18 am on Wed, 11.20. 2013 The passing of sex researcher Virginia Johnson the last week of July at the age of 88 in St. Louis (and the Showtime series) brought back a remarkable experience my wife and I had at the famous Masters and Johnson clinic. No, it wasn’t sex therapy we needed but a baby; and we couldn’t have one. So in 1968, after a year of trying to conceive, we went to their Reproductive Biology Research Lab,
High School Crushes and 50's Sex
By Robert Chianese, Class of 1960, Hamilton High School, Trenton, New Jersey (2016) The Death of a High School Classmate provokes a lasting memory of a teenage crush, and regret. Belated Confessions of a female high school classmate: After I learned about his recent death, and his life of dealing with alcohol and depression, I only hope that over these fifty-five plus years he may gotten a little pleasure—if he ever did know—that someone had a major crush on him for at least
Cruel Season: Artists on Drought & Fire at Museum of Ventura County
This eco-art exhibit at the Museum of Ventura County, entitled Cruel Season: Artists Reflecting on Drought and Fire, (Sep 13 - Nov 23, 2014) tasked artists to prepare our community for what could be a horrendous fire season. This is "occasional" art in the service of civic engagement. (I created a website for the exhibit: http://rlchianese.wix.com/cruelseason.) I have three poems, one with a photograph, and an essay in the exhibit and read poems in the gallery the night of S
"Valve Job," Or How I Learned to Take Surgery Seriously
Valve Job By Robert Chianese. October 23, 2019 I was doing my work out, walking up hills, puffing a bit, waiting to hear when my busted shoulder would get repaired—rotator cuff and partially detached bicep—when I told myself, wait a minute, I have shortness of breath, not referred shoulder pain. An echocardiogram showed stenosis of my aortic valve. I could see it if I twisted my head to glimpse the screen: white dots on what I took to be my valve, which are calcium deposits t
