June 20, today is Father’s Day. I am suspicious. Could Father’s Day be a “Hallmark holiday,” created by clever marketers to sell cards, to condition “consumers” to spend more? Learning to be a good father is important. I just do not think fatherhood compares to the months of pregnancy, to the hazard of giving…
Yesterday was spent at the Brookfield Zoo. I recall visiting some thirty years ago… Eager to visit again, I was taken by surprise at the feelings that came when viewing the animals in captivity. I am no longer a child, able to experience the zoo environment with magical delight. I remember what that was…
NASA: Earth is trapping ‘unprecedented’ amount of heat, warming ‘faster than expected’Catherine Garcia, Night editor Wed, June 16, 2021, 6:41 PM Since 2005, the amount of heat trapped by the Earth has roughly doubled, according to a new study by NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers. This is contributing to warming oceans,…
Day’s end was spent in a leisurely walk by the Fox River in the vicinity of the Fabyan Japanese Tea Garden. The walk was a welcome conclusion to a summer day of work. Camera in hand I paid attention to the wild flowers which grow there in abundance. Walking around the Tea Garden I…
A postscript to the observations about Amazon. I am a Amazon customer. I buy books on a regular basis and Amazon is convenient, affordable, etc. Often a book is available that perhaps I’d find otherwise with a great deal of effort. I have a good friend who works for Amazon. His account of the…
How much should I care? Is care involuntary? Can I choose to care or not to care? Or what to care about? It appears that all of life, that is all that I am aware of, is involuntary… The organism, you and I are no exception, is a concatenated layered system of bio-chemical cause…
It is tempting to believe that Nature is eternal, subsisting impervious to the erosion of time. A temptation, an illusion, one immature mistake made when we extract “resources” and increase the heat load to the atmosphere and to the oceans. Thus we give a collective shove-of-the-wheel toward global warming and climate change catastrophe. Whenever…
[there must be one thing you can’t have in order to be alive] Jon-Michael Frank there must be one thing you can’t have in order to be alive watching flowers open on youtube I mean, my life is wasted on my life requirement is simple it takes a wound to return to yourself the…
Several days ago a friend sent me this graphic. The three fates are pictured attending to their respective duties, measuring and allocating the course of good and the not-so-good fallout of “chance” in the life of the individual and also of nations. Our ancestors understanding of “determinism” had to do with the meta observation…
Yesterday evening, Thursday prior to the G-7 meeting a media event was held showcasing a meeting between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain. The meeting was competently choreographed, and both spoke in generalities: a typical show and tell projecting images of the leaders of the “free world.” I have doubts. …
