Last night we attended a dinner to celebrate the 50th year wedding anniversary of two friends. Lauretta’s Italian Bakery Restaurant in Mundelein provided the venue for the event. I cannot remember an evening of conversation, good food, wine and much good will, that was more enjoyable. Certainly I will remember the extended conversations with…
Another cloudy morning with a stiff cool breeze. It is June and we’ve had rain with more to come. Wet and cool does not augur well for the corn just planted in the fields. There’s no comfort on the front page of the New York Times this morning. Depicted on the front page, —…
“Have we all got to die then?” she asked. There was no reply. Meanwhile a man on foot went past below. He saw the smashed-up cars and began nosing round them. Leaning over into one of them he pulled out a gay parasol, a lady’s handbag and a bottle of wine. Then he sat…
Saturday. I arrived at Starbucks earlier than usual. The Saturday papers are not yet delivered, and feeling abnormally anxious I wanted to know if a five percent tariff would be imposed on imports from Mexico, beginning Monday. So I resorted to MSN news site on my computer and I felt relief. An agreement has…
Friday is the final work day of the week. This has been a full week of physical labor, one project after another. It’s simply hard labor to prepare a house to go on the market. I have been on the roof and in the attic. Hours have been dedicated to finding and filling boxes…
Another day, Thursday, one day closer to the imposition of a tariff on all goods imported from Mexico. Thus a supply chain between the United States and Mexico established over the last twenty five years will be disrupted. The President expects Mexico to slam the door upon thousands fleeing the impact of climate change…
We are radically different and radically alike. We are extensively differentiated yet bound together. …that of the strong protecting and standing for the weak. ..because most people cease to believe [this] its conceit. —excerpt The Ignoble Lie By Patrick Deneen “They use this phrase to refer to the mushroom cloud over the whole earth….
Springtime is Natures spectacle of color and music. Birds sing loudly, flowers reach for the warm sun, the creeks flow with their own music and rhapsody. Included are some photos taken over the weekend. Kraklauer Creek in the little park by our favorite Taste-of-Paris Cafe was running with wild abandon, full to the banks…
Yesterday I received several text messages and pictures from Cincinnati. My daughter and her partner traveled from Louisville to visit the Cincinnati Zoo. The objective of their journey was to spend time with Fiona, the recently born baby hippo. She was born 6 weeks premature, and is the smallest hippo ever to survive. Perhaps…
“……what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when man over strains his reason and tries to reduce to rational order matters that are not susceptible of rational treatment. Then there arise ideals such as those of the Americans…
