Today Western imperialism is the imperialism of relativism, of the “it all depends on your point of view”; it’s the eye-rolling or the wounded indignation at anyone who’s stupid, primitive, or presumptuous enough to still believe in something, to affirm anything at all. No social order can securely found itself on the principle that…
Yesterday I resolved to sort through a bankers box of archived materials, a good bit philosophy related, some personal photos from 5k runs that I enjoyed with family members, business related articles on sales saved on the merits of future usefulness….etc. The material represents the mosiac of my life. A 8×10 photo of “Animal…
Parents are generally anxious about really big things like melting ice caps and collapsing economy and unending stories about violence and predators and college admissions…. They displace all of these fears of things they cannot control onto the one thing they believe they can control, which is children. —-excerpt Wendy Mogel, The Blessing Of…
It is the eighth day of gray overcast here in the Midwest. I anticipate my appointment with the medical technician for a blood draw in about an hour. No breakfast yet, as fasting is required. Will the caffeine in this tall black coffee help? I can’t tell. Where do you turn for a recharge…
Many years ago, when in graduate school, I was asked to write a Credo, a concise statement of the core principles of my life. This was a good exercise for anyone intent upon earning a degree. After all what has one really learned from the exercise of education, — hours spent listening to passionate…
Memory is a strange thing. Yesterday I dedicated enough time to sort through the folders of legal, financial and administrative paperwork archived on occasion of the passing of my mom and more recently my sister. There seemed to be a lot of evidence for events that were sudden and still feel less than real,…
In our home, upon a wall of the room with all of the books, and there are more than a few books, there are a pair of photographs hanging. The photos are of my wife taken when she was seven years old, and of myself when I look to be about five. We decided…
I know that others have been invited. I’ve seen the invitation. I never expected to receive one myself. I have been invited by the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump to be a member of the Presidential Advisory Board, to help lead his 2020 grassroots support team. Perhaps upon my soon-to-be-filed 2019…
I didn’t realize how much I looked forward to Tuesday evenings. As usual I walked into the Chatterbox Cafe in Long Grove and looked for a seat. The place always gets crowed on taco Tuesdays, cheap taco night. When the small tables are taken along two sides of the room, I find a place…
LET’S REMAKE AMERICA GREAT by Richard Blanco Yes: Let’s reshoot America as a fantasy, a 90’s TV show in clearblack and white, sponsored by Kent cigarettes, Wonder Bread,and good old-fashioned war, again. Let’s re-create the backlotsuburb with rows of five bedroom homes for every Wilsonand Johnson, walled by perfectly trimmed hedges, weedlesslawns, and at…
