Timing is everything, according to the saying. Timing, the right time, a propitious time, the “alignment of stars and planets,” is a key aspect of life. Perhaps it is everything. I cannot say. In the off chance there is a god, and he/she could see with exquisite clarity past, present, and future, — and…
It is not often that I offer more than one post per day. Since this is EARTH DAY I am obligated to draw attention to the matter that is before all of us. Are we not at a “live or let die” juncture? We are “of the earth” and will surely share whatever is…
From this Thursday morning’s New York Times: Biden plans to declare that the Ottoman killings of Armenian civilians during World War I were genocide. It could fray relations with Turkey, which rejects the designation. This up-welling of truthful, coherent speech has been long in coming. No other president has was able to overcome the…
Yesterday in Minneapolis a jury convicted officer Derek Chauvin of second degree murder (and of two other charges as well) in the killing of George Floyd this past May. The scene of gratuitous, lethal cruelty was filmed by a bystander. The conviction of a police officer is very, very rare. The New York Times…
Today promises to be gray and chilly. Rain and snow is predicted, — spring in the Midwest. I plan to be out and about, walking with my camera. This is the time of birth in the cycle of the seasons. Who would not wish to be on hand when new life is emerging to…
The word, “breakout,” conveys the connotation of an extreme, threatening circumstance. The stakes are high. An attempt is made by force to breach the encirclement, to achieve freedom of movement. I simply want to write about our very first experience of eating-out, dining at a restaurant after receiving our second Moderna covid shot. This…
Πολιτεία (Politeia) The Greek word translates into English as Republic. It is the title of Plato’s well known work, The Republic. The Greek word comes from the term polis, a description of a commercial, administrative community such as Athens in her heyday, a city-state. A polis is more sharply defined is the administrative and…
My reading in Julia Kristeva’s This Incredible Need To Believe continues. Here are some quotations from the book that are particularly arresting this morning. What is art? …adventures of immanence. Infinite intellectual love (literature, art, etc.) when they are carried out and received not as “objects of consummation” but as the very being of…
Friday dawns cool and sunny, typical of spring here in the Midwest. Of the projects in mind for today: a morning Zoom session to hear our grandson, a new author present his story of a visit to the zoo. I will be privileged to witness his reading of the story. He is six years…
In fact, we are the orphans of a reality that came too late and which is only, like truth, an “official report” in “delayed time.” Excerpt, Radical Thought by Jean Baudrillard Yesterday, while driving, listening to an interview on NPR, I heard this story. In Kane County where I presently live, the county government has…
