We attended the Walworth County Fair in Elkhorn Wisconsin yesterday. The first fair to be held on the grounds was in 1851. This is an old fashion farming community fair that continues to be supported by the entire community. I particularly enjoy the sense of history whenever we visit this place. The fair grounds…
We live in a dark time. Anything that can be said is relative to context. I write in a first world country, in relative safety. My circumstances are enviable. So far no drought, no floods, and abundance of food. Today I am gainfully employed. Many others who live elsewhere would happily trade places with…
“When you tell me that, you know, he should testify because he’s going to tell the truth and he shouldn’t worry, well that’s so silly because it’s somebody’s version of the truth. Not the truth,” Giuliani told Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday morning. “Truth is truth,” Todd responded. “No, no,…
THE STRAIGHT LINE IS GODLESS AND IMMORAL –Friedensreich Hundertwasser Architect and artist December 15, 1928 – February 19, 2000 The logic freaks have had it their way for over 2000 years and all they have to offer now is more of the same: more technology, more rationality, more surveillance, more consumption,…
As we all know by now, John McCain died earlier today (Saturday). This was not a surprise. In recent days we knew that the end of his life was nearing. When Senator McCain ran for president I did not vote for him. I was cheering on the young Senator from Illinois whose father was…
“Time goes slowly, but time can do so much….,” according to the lyric of the Righteous Brothers anthem Unchained Melody. We are bound to time. When there’s plenty of time ahead of us–we seldom reflect upon times passage. At least that is how I’ve lived my life. Several weeks ago, I decided not to…
Doxa (ancient Greek; from verb dokein, “to appear”, “to seem”, “to think” and “to accept”) is a Greek word meaning common belief or popular opinion. We have opinions on everything that we see or that affects us, to the extent the human sciences can be seen as a vast doxology. —but things themselves are…
Last weekend the Chicago Airshow was held at the lake front. I did not attend. Not that I do not enjoy airshows. I’ve attended my share in the past. One of my enduring memories was the privilege of viewing a mock dogfight between a Japanese Zero and the American P-38. A low altitude twisting…
What is called “perception” is no longer a state of affairs but a state of the body as induced by another body, and “affection” is the passage of this state to another state as increase or decrease of potential-power through the action of other bodies. Nothing is passive, but everything is interaction, even gravity………
SPIRALLING OUT I look for the way things will turn spiralling out from a center… Life is about invention, not survival. We are here to create, not to defend. In a creative playful world, all of us are, all the time, poets. Even the most analytic science, the most careful construction of models, is…
