May 1st yesterday was the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Our daughter and her partner lived in Louisville for many years. The celebration of Derby week is part of their heritage as former residents of Louisville. Therefore our household gathered in the living room to enjoy the…
Jesus is not coming back! Is that statement ironic, troubling, laugh-out-loud funny, or simply nonsensical? It depends entirely upon the reader. What do you bring to those words arranged in syntax? What mental image forms, involuntarily? Do you experience a strong emotional response: relief, dread… The meaning is involuntary after all, the effect of…
My day began at 6AM. These are community yard sale days here in Batavia. I did what I could to assist with staging items in our driveway, preparing for the early-comers. The early birds are intent upon surveying as many places possible, looking for the odd item to be treasured, or something they need. …
Where did One go? Am I still One when I analyze, or am analyzed? Yes, but with an unidentifiable identity, without a fixed center, or mortiferous* repetition; serial music rather, a dance improvised and yet supported by an underlying, open order. …a long history that never stops coming back, catching up with us. p….
We discussed capitalism last night. The essay was a three page thought experiment with an optimistic conclusion. The author speculated that capitalism would be “humanized” as a result of covid. I am not convinced that will be the case. Moreover the covid virus is not done with us Americans. Approximately a third of us…
Getting started is the crux of the matter. The ending depends upon the beginning, or as T. S. Eliot wrote in Burnt Norton: Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time future,And time future contained in time past. What immediately follows, the very next line dumbfounds me.. If all time is eternally…
A few days ago I stopped in at the Roadster Shop in Mundelein. This business builds custom street roads for customers all over the United States. They have been kind over the years to allow me to shoot photos of their work parked on the showroom floor. I can hardly remember a time when…
Last night we viewed “Stowaway,” a Netflix film about a three man mission to Mars. Or rather, a two woman, and one man mission that becomes a four person mission with the discovery of a stowaway, after the launch of the spacecraft Kingfisher. The acting is excellent. Toni Collette is mission commander Marina Barrett. …
It is Saturday morning. I awakened early, around 5AM I suppose. The nightmare caused me to grasp for consciousness. I no longer remember any details. A feeling of dread lingers though. The vision in some form is likely to return. It is there in the nether regions of the unconscious. What fear is the…
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…
