Starbucks on a Saturday morning, a background buzz of conversation, hubub from behind the serving counter, as baristas furiously compose drinks, microwaving breakfast treats, –and I reading my new book, Hiking With Nietzsche, by John Kaag. What am I thinking, as I close in on my 70th birthday, day to day working through the…
The weather is bitter, matching my frame of mind. Yesterday was close to 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and over night, a whipsaw to 8 degrees and a stiff wind. Even colder existentially was the snippet of a NPR news report this morning. There is planned for today a White House Rose Garden ceremony where the…
A day of appreciation for those who mean the most to us reminded me of a granddaughter that we all miss. Baby Kai was still-born with little advance warning on December of 2017. She was loved, her birth celebrated with anticipation. She will always have a place in our hearts. Thus I remember her …
Yesterday I was working out of doors, it was 16 degrees with a stiff 20 mph gusting wind. I persevered to completion of a necessary job. That’s what it means to live as an adult. There are many things that must be done, never mind the discomfort. On the return drive to the office…
And so it begins. What begins, remains to be seen. A bipartisan committee has finished a compromise bill that addresses border security concerns, as well as funds the government. The Democrats appear to have turned the Presidents demand to have ability to create unlimited detention centers along the border. A cap is established in…
A few days ago an extended email exchange of points of view happened. The mutual expression of views were in response to an initial statement regarding the hyped and stratospheric values of the art market, a field of competition for the uber-wealthy. I was prompted to reflect upon my long standing fascination with art,…
WASHINGTON — Congressional efforts to reach a border security deal ahead of another government shutdown broke down on Sunday over Democratic demands to limit the detention of undocumented immigrants, as President Trump moved more troops to the border and prepared to rally supporters in Texas on Monday…… The impasse appears to center on Democratic…
Truth establishes itself in the work.* Truth essentially occurs only as the strife between the clearing and concealing in the opposition of world and earth. Truth wills to be established in the work as this strife of world and earth. The strife is not to be resolved in being brought forth for that purpose,…
My post of yesterday was a singularly grim, unnerving topic, the German V-1 rocket bomb. It was labeled by its creators, vengeance weapon. For 80 days they rained down on London in 1944. One could evaluate by a study of the development, use, and purpose of the V-1, the meaning of German society in…
A poetic codename for the V-1 flying bomb, or “Vengeance Weapon” launched against London on June 13, 1944. The flying bomb, was developed at Peenemunde Army Research Center in 1939 by the German Luftwaffe. It was a weapon of desperation, launched after the successful D-day landing on the beaches in France. Nearly 10,000 V-1s…
