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My vocation is and my career has been in social ethics which includes social action or politics through community organizing, religious studies or theology, psychology, sociology, and above all philosophy--especially existential phenomenology (e.g., Merleau-Ponty and Hannah Arendt) and pragmatism (John Dewey and Richard Rorty).

I have written books and presentations in that field. They are essays or collections of essays in the root meaning of the word. They are experiments which I offer to my peers (and by that I mean everyone) for refutation, comments, and suggestions. I wrote them to sort out my thoughts. Since they came from my interaction with my teachers and ancestors, I offer them back to my successors.

And check out my Medium writings medium.com/@rolliesmith

Recently, I have been working on a phenomenology of grief from personal and communal loss, its connection to shared suffering and solidarity towards spiritual awaking and social justice.

I am redoing this website which used to cite my books and publications, my contact information, the achievements and failures by which I learned, resumes, and all the other things a professional website might hold.

I am now retired and getting old. I use this site mainly as a memorial to my world beyond myself. It's a way of meditating and letting go and letting be of all the people whom I have loved and who have loved me--and submitting myself fully to the Goddess whom I personalize as the Spirit of Love to whom my best friend and partner in all the adventures and risks of life has given her self as she did with me, our children, our friends, and colleagues, but now totally.

It shall be my final spiritual exercise in the name of my Goddess.

Here I add my letters to the Goddess of Grief and Resurrection https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:bf13c95c-6d2d-49c3-a059-c03b2094b248

Goddess of Grief and Resurrection

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