Music is a blessed respite from the grime, the contamination of day to day politics, commerce, the trade offs that must be made in order for life to go on. I get it, this is not Paradise, this is East of Eden. I do not live in a rose garden. My opportunity, along with…
Exchanged emails with a friend last night. He is a Trump supporter. I am not. I asked him how it is that he is such a Trump-man when his people were immigrants. Perhaps I will hear from him later this morning. We are friends so he will likely have some answer for my consideration. …
This morning I turned on NPR. Still dark, it was early. Barely awake, I tuned to the beginning of an interview with one of Alabama’s Congressional Representatives. This is the followup of the Presidents visit to McAllen Texas yesterday. I could not listen to the interview with the man from Alabama. The sound of…
This morning according to the NPR newscast the President is to visit the border region between our country and Mexico. I visited that part of our country once, many years ago. Traveling from Chicago to San Francisco on the California Zephyr the train stopped for about twenty minutes somewhere in New Mexico. I marveled…
It is Wednesday, the day after the Presidents televised speech to the nation. Such televised speeches usually signal circumstances of extraordinary, even dire import. This was simply the next stratagem to get a wall built along the border between our country and Mexico. The cost would be in excess of five billion dollars. Why…
Philosophy becomes a kind of necessary virus, which causes a constructive fever in others, compelling them to be and to do more than just survive. It is not there to appease or to make people feel better; it is there to provoke a constant restlessness of being. –excerpt from What Makes A Philosopher? by…
Not that I have lost any hope. All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die. I don’t know why we should expect it to. It seems fairly…
The automobile is emblematic of America. The Model T Ford created by Henry Ford, a “modern” means of transportation affordable by the working man/woman, and the interstate highway system built by the Eisenhower Administration have defined America. As a baby-boomer I learned to love cars while in high school. The most vivid memories retained…
Friday, yesterday began with frost on the windshield. After all it is still early January. The weather forecast for the day held promise of temperature in the 40s, with 50s expected today. This was delivered on the late evening news with much fanfare of graphical display and expression of animated glee by the attractive…
I was intrigued by these words from Heidegger. You will need to read carefully, and at least twice for his meaning to clarify for your mind. Written in the early years of the 20th century, the words are prescient to our condition a century into the future, the 21st century. By disavowing itself in…
