We can only arriveat a clear conception of immortalityin a stable, unchanging universe.In a universe where a divine sanctionensures the continuity of the cosmic order (Kepler’s universe),immortality is akin to a natural propertyof the human microcosm.It is merely the logical extensionof the continuity of an order.The universe could not change since allis ordained by…
THE SECOND COMING Turning, turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconerThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Turning and turning in the widening gyreMere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all convictions, while the worst Are full…
I have no plans to join millions around the world viewing the inauguration. I’d rather dedicate my awareness to other things. I imagine Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Chew – appointed members of the royal court. They will occupy prime seating close to the man forwarded to the oval office by a system that long since…
This short story is one of the most remarkable I’ve ever read! How is it possible for a male to express with such insight, aspects of pregnancy which only a female is directly acquainted? Surely the description of such an expectation of ‘the unknown’ must be attributed to extraordinary observation. And then the hidden…
I purchased a painting by the late artist, Ed Dlugopolski, who lived in Batavia. I did not know Ed. I am sure that I would have enjoyed his company. Ed was an art educator. He taught high school. The acrylic painting is called, The Innocent Victims of War. Ed’s painting cannot be labeled as…
At Barnes & Noble a group of us talked and listened for almost two hours. The topic igniting the discussion: fervent desires when acted upon, change the course of the future in expected and unexpected ways. One member at the table observed that every living thing is involved with adapting to an environment, therefore…
“What do I matter?”is written over the doorof the thinker of the future. The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. by J. M. Kennedy, aphorism 547 Of course each of us that lives believes – that “I” am here as an undercover Messiah. One way or another I (and you) desire to be…
The very idea of a market, or better, of markets places/techniques of exchange, for the purpose of trading on human misery – is obscene. The video appeals for donations to alleviate the suffering of children in foreign lands reach crescendo during the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. In January over the dinner evening news…
A few minutes ago a friend mentioned in passing that he intends to be absent from Starbucks for a few days. He plans to be on a cruise in the Caribbean, out of the country, anticipating the inauguration of the Trump administration on January 20th. Coincidentally I happened to be reading this text at…
Over the past several day’s I have read and contributed to an email discussion on the topic of greed. There’s no secret that greed, becomes manifest as an approved American virtue. The 1 percent, the uber wealthy are celebrated, feted in print media, regarded as exemplars of an ideal to be emulated. Indeed perhaps…
