Today is June 1st. June is the month of summer. Summer arrives in few days. Summer is prime time for plants, animals and all living things. Growth is at maximum velocity over the arc of June and the following two months. In the northern hemisphere, the tilt of the earth’s axis places us closer…
And you know that she’s half-crazy but that’s why you want to be thereAnd she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China… And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowersThere are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morningThey are…
Yesterday, a sunny Saturday on Memorial Day weekend. It’s uncertain that warm weather reaches the Midwest by late May. The weather is often “ify,” that is rainy, borderline cold, unpleasant. In the past a number of planned outings to Great Lakes Drag-a-Way on Memorial Day weekend were disappointed due to weather. Misery for me…
Saturday morning. The air is clear and clean, the green of spring is iridescent. Birds are calling, hidden in the foliage. I heard report that we received a half inch of needed rain. For now that goes a long way to relieve the mild drought we’ve experienced. Perhaps my neighbors have not noticed. I…
I have little to say this morning. At the end of the week I am “running on empty” as the phrase goes. The duties of the week demand attention, a quotient of energy/effort and little is left over when every day is full. Today is rainy, overcast, in the 50s, cool for springtime. Spring…
Yesterday was the birthday of STEVIE NICKS. If you are a member of the “Boomer” generation, those born right after WWII, odds are that you know that Nicks is a member of Fleetwood Mac a premier rock band of the Age of Aquarius. To a millennial person born in the 80s or a gen…
Here’s to the song writers, the lyricists, the word-smiths of rhythm, rhyme and harmony! If it were not so early in the day I’d raise a glass of sweet red wine to toast all that I have been given by their songs. (Out of an abundance of caution, it is best to stay away…
Plato was not a fan of the tragedians, or of the work of any poet. The view of Plato, that reason will lead us to an epiphany of “the good”, if we discipline ourselves enough, — is precisely the idealism which is central to our Enlightenment heritage, here in this United States of America. …
“Humanity’s pasthas been relatively brief:some 300,000 years as a species,a few thousand years of civilization.Its potential future, by contrast,could extend for billions of years,encompassing many trillions of sentient, rational beingsyet to be born.” The future – the adulthood of humanityis now in jeopardy. “If our species does destroy itself,”wrote Orville Schell, “it will bea…
Sunday morning. Arrived at a local coffee shop, along with a few early-bird bike riders. The coffee, excellent, and what better venue with a hum of voices in the background for wrestling with words to express inchoate thoughts. The mind is like that: associations rapidly intersecting in unpredictable fashion. You search for words to…
