I want to think of Fall as the season of red and yellow maple trees, orange pumpkins, and children under the supervision of nearby parents, holding an open pillow case at a front door. On Halloween the sack grows heavier by the minute with treats collected from the neighbors. Fall is truly a season…
This post was written by a good friend. It is offered here as a succinct description of the divide that exists between Americans. The lesson that we are at taught over and over and over again (and yet we never seem to retain) is that the supporters of Donald Trump will find a way…
One cannot be religious in general, one can only believe in some god(s) to the detriment of others, and the failure of all the efforts to unite religions proves that the only way to be religious in general is under the banner of the ‘anonymous religion of atheism’. And effectively only an atheist regime…
Google claims a computing breakthrough The company said today that it had achieved “quantum supremacy,” a milestone that would make current supercomputers look like toys. At a research lab in California, a mathematical calculation that the largest supercomputers could not complete in under 10,000 years was done in 3 minutes 20 seconds, Google said…
Why? Any action taken, any at all, — is subject to the bar of reason. One can ask “the why” of anything. Why am I here? Yesterday afternoon why did I find myself at the Honda of Lisle dealership, being introduced by a stranger at the front desk to another stranger who would sell…
Well here you have it. Disaffection with “business as usual,” corrupt, inefficient, representative democracy had reached such a pitch that in the 2016 presidential election we installed an unabashed authoritarian into the White House. This man doubles down on ignorance. He knows nothing about many things that he fancies himself to be supremely knowledgeable…
The sky is overcast, a chill asserts that Fall and Winter inexorably follows the tilt of the earth’s axis. Over a bowl of cheerios I perused the New York Times Weekend Briefing email received in the early hours. Somewhere someone is awake, living, in full awareness of their lot in their one solitary life, …
We do not experience the contents of our self-consciousness as the contents of a representational process, and we do not experience them as some sort of causally active internal placeholder of the system in the system’s all-inclusive model of reality, but simply as ourselves, living in the world right now. — Excerpt Being No…
In the ‘normal’ run of things life just goes on, following its inertia, and we are immersed in our daily cares and rituals. Then something happens, an eventual Awakening, a secular version of a miracle (social emancipatory tumult, a traumatic love encounter…). If we opt for fidelity to this Event, our entire life changes;…
I am invited to read some poetry at a community gathering tomorrow evening. It is an honor to be asked to join others for sharing poetry and prose in a public place. Words crafted and offered up to celebrate the joy and tragedy of our experience create a sacred space. I plan to read…
