Uncertain about what to write this morning. The coffee shop was jammed at 7AM. Fortunately I claimed the last open table. Yesterday I took a hour long walk along the Fox river into town. Soon, the singing of the wind through the tall oaks, the voices of the Canada Geese on the water replaced…
Once again we met last night at the Agora in Geneva. I use the term as a metaphor for a public meeting space, the Barnes & Noble at Geneva Commons. As in Socrates day a circle of us gathered to ask questions which have no final answer, the enigmas that have and will follow…
Life can be imagined in many metaphors. Word-images “say” more that any formulaic, extended description, a one-to-one correlation between word/syntax and external reality. Life cannot be reduced to any logical, rule like convention. The metaphor rising in my imagination labeled “life” is the memory of a river rafting experience on the Hood River in…
Unchained Melody Oh, my love My darling I’ve hungered for your touch A long, lonely time And time goes by so slowly And time can do so much Are you still mine? I need your love I need your love God speed your love to me Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the…
What happens? Yesterday the news came that Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar dropped out of primary contention. The day before it was Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana who called a halt to his bid to be the candidate for the Democratic party. I assume both are throwing their support to former…
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. — Gustave Flaubert I have been a fan of “good quotes” for many years. At the prompting of a professor in grad school I began writing in a pocket-sized notebook memorable lines discovered…
Teachingis a kind of learning,much like loving,mutual goings-on,mutual forbearance,life itself, you might say. But how shall I improvethe swiftly-dimming hour?I shall deteriorate amid bucolic dreamsand gather in my fate.There’s lots worse ways than that. Alas,some goodbyes are like death;they bring the heart to earthand teach it how to die. Excerpt, Farewell to Teaching By…
Consequent to a phone conversation with a friend yesterday, I was asked to write about the covid-19 epidemic that is much in the media. His suggestion seemed like a good idea to me. Who is not aware of the recently discovered virus, belonging to the corona family that has made many sick in Hubei…
Creatures of habit. I am, — no question about it. Yesterday I walked away. I left a place where I have worked daily, departing from my role as owner of a company, the chief problem solver. The wind-down has been gradual, beginning six months ago. After a day of labor to tear down the…
It is easy for the mind to indulge. The opposite is also easy, to renounce. To move to the extreme is easy for the mind. To remain in the middle, exactly in the middle, is the most difficult thing for the mind because it is suicide for the mind. The mind dies in the…
