Like many who I have spoken with since the presidential election of November of 2016, I remain puzzled and dismayed that this ignorant bombastic individual received enough votes to win The White House for four years. The media rationale as well as “reasons” given by acquaintances for supporting Trump seem surreal, like ideas transmitted…
Heard this tune played on the radio yesterday, I’ve heard it many times before. This time it rocked me, “knocked me out”. That’s an expression of the impact of a tune and lyric on my sense of space and time. Music can do that. It’s a matter of serendipity of timing: the right time…
The day before yesterday it rained hard, really hard. In our neighborhood over two inches fell within an hour, In the backyard, the green grass appeared faint and then disappeared under the surface of brown water. At the side of our house, a creek flowed, threatening to become a river. Water covering our and…
Recently I was troubled by an email exchange with a friend. He supported the removal of children from parents seeking asylum at our southern border. I called it kidnapping, and insisted such acts were atrocities. He disagreed. His argument was that these parents were neer-do-wells intent on defrauding our government. Therefore they deserve to…
Tuesday morning 8AM at Starbucks. Outside the rain Is falling in a dense curtain of water. Thunder rolls. If this keeps up there is going to be flooding. Usually a downpour abates in a few minutes. Sometimes it does not. I find myself thinking in a parallel fashion about the state of our society,…
One of the first news items of the day was that Donald Hall has passed. The poet died on Saturday at his home in New Hampshire. He will be missed by many. If you are interested here is the NY Times ARTICLE on his life and work. A poem by Donald Hall: Affirmation To…
Yesterday I spent the afternoon sorting through boxes of archived files, –class notes from college and grad school, articles on business that I had saved for a second reading that never happened, and family related materials. It was an archeological dig into the past of selves that became the person that I now am….
This morning I received a short, two lines of email from a friend. He commented that he was “somewhat troubled by the Presidents apparent lack of humility.” I composed a brief reply which I sent to him privately without including the rest of the group of recipients. Each of us is an individual caught…
Aesthetics is the science dedicated to the study of the contact between the derma (the skin, the sensitive surface of our body-mind) and different chemical, physical, electromagnetic, electronic, and informational flows. ….the universe is a continuum of diverse and interrelated entities in bodily contact with each other. It is both an organic and inorganic…
Social solidarity is not an ethical or ideological value: It depends on the continuousness of the relation between individuals in time and in space. The material foundation of solidarity is the perception of the continuation of the body in the body, and the immediate understanding of my interest and your interest. —Franco “Bifo” Berardi…
