I read the email received from an old friend this morning, expressing sadness over having to cancel plans to visit family in Alaska. The pandemics spread accelerates around us, now we receive word of acquaintances who are hospitalized. The email had news of a mutual friend who was admitted to the ER last night…
Yesterday I read fragments of a report on the massive Pro-Trump demonstration in Washington DC. Thousands gathered to wave flags and to march noisily through the streets to protest of the outcome of one of the cleanest U.S. elections in modern times. So much for the notion that President elect Biden will unite the…
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the…
Yesterday was a sublime fall day. In the morning I worked to gather the leaves that remained on our lawn. The mulched leaves were used to form a berm across a boundary section between our yard and the public park. In the months intervening till spring perhaps these leaves will turn to humus. I…
The world is vast and beyond definition. Anything that can be defined can be controlled. There is much in experience that is wild, idiosyncratic, a patient contradiction to the mind. Yet, there it is, undefined, a surd. I think of my day to day responsibility to work with my grand daughter to learn her…
Continuing To Live By Philip Larkin Continuing to live — that is, repeat A habit formed to get necessaries — Is nearly always losing, or going without. It varies. This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise — Ah, if the game were poker, yes, You might discard them, draw a full house! But it’s…
Strangely, all of what you do depends on who you think you are. Just who do you think you are anyway? You are everyone who ever was and everyone who ever will be. Decisions that you make in what we call this present – this here and now – will validate (or invalidate) everything…
Sounds mundane doesn’t it? Monday is the first day of the “work week.” Taken literally the “work week” is a hallmark of middle class. If one is not fortunate to have sufficient shelter, food, and good health — there is no respite from work. That has always been the case. Also, if one is…
Today is another warm fall day, a good time to be out of doors. As with most of the country I watched the speech last night of Vice President Joe Biden, with Senator Kamala Harris acknowledge having won the election. It was a good speech, one that Biden after a lifetime of public service…
Organisms soldier on unwittingly. The difference between how things seem and how things really are is just as fatal a gap for them as it can be for us, but they are largely oblivious to it. The recognition of the difference between appearance and reality is a human discovery. False belief=getting it wrong. Animals…
