Rain today. I am grateful for the rain. It has been six weeks with very little rain. Last night I exchanged emails with a friend who expressed hatred for a group of people. i failed to persuade him that expressing hatred is unjustified as no individual has responsibility for who their parents happen to…
I’ve never thought of Nietzsche as having a good joke. Granted he was a good writer. If he were alive I do not think he’d be hired to write comedy skits for Saturday Night Live. His biting sardonic wit is an acquired taste. Yesterday I read for a few minutes from one of my…
Exhausted and don’t know why. Well not exactly why, though I have some ideas about the why of it all. Not the first time I’ve felt this way. The feeling will pass as do all emotional states, which are the minds weather. No need to worry about the weather. So, I am content to…
What is involved when I think, when you think? What does one do when one thinks? Is it possible to remember when you were a child, just learning speak words, asking and learning the names of things, …tricycle, dog, ball? (1) There is a triple root of acts of transcendence (thought) through which the…
When an artist dies, I think a piece of the world breaks off and falls away. Aretha Franklin was a “world maker.” Franklin recorded 112 charted singles on Billboard, including 77 Hot 100 entries, 17 top-ten pop singles, 100 R&B entries and 20 number-one R&B singles, becoming the most charted female artist in the…
Concepts are Vagabond A concept is fuzzy or vague not because it lacks an outline but because it is a vagabond, non-discursive, moving about on a plane of immanence. ….it is the event as pure sense that immediately runs through the components. It has no number…for counting things that display its properties, but a…
Metastasis Metastasis is a pathogenic agent’s spread from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host’s body; it is typically spoken of as such spread by a cancerous tumor. The newly pathological sites, then, are metastases. Wikipedia *** This morning I felt numb, unable to write in the…
Today is to be a “normal” day at the office. Pay no attention that my mind seems to be in molasses, barely able to rise above idle. Perhaps that will improve as the day progresses. I struggled to read and understand the text in this mornings reading of the comparison between philosophy and science. …
Got up at 5:30AM and by 6AM I was climbing into the cab of the big blue Volvo semi. I spent the weekend with Aunt Clara and her family, honored to be included by marriage. The occasion was a celebration of her 90th birthday. A family member, David operates a trucking business and kindly…
Rough day yesterday. I witnessed an email exchange between friends which came to a painful conclusion. I was a participant, and played a part in the conclusion which at this juncture could entail the end of a relationship with an individual. I do not know anyone who would abide the disparagement of being judged…
