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…
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…
