These photos were taken at the Rivera Boat House at Lake Geneva this past Sunday afternoon. Lake Geneva on a Sunday afternoon is close enough to Paradise as far as I am concerned. The lake stretches to the horizon, the surface sparkling in the sun, a platter of diamonds. We walked out on the…
Each of us desired to be happy, once. As the years pass many give up the quest and the hope of happiness. Happiness, the contentment of well-being diminishes as time takes its toll. It’s not a matter of money. Financial resources while necessary to happiness are not sufficient. The most important aspects of happiness…
This image was received from a friend. The quality of this photograph is obvious. I have never been to Yellowstone. This photo transports me emotionally to that landscape, its loneliness, to the emergence of life amidst the rocky crag. To my mind the image is titled, “One Tree Hill.” An image of a universe…….
Philosophy is becoming, not history; it is the coexistence of planes, not the succession of systems. We will say that the plane of immanence is, at the same time, that which must be thought and that which cannot be thought. It is the nonthought within thought. …It is the most intimate within thought and…
The year was 1965. I was a member of an Eagle Scout Troop sponsored by Monsanto. Our meetings typically were in the lab where our scoutmaster worked at the Monsanto Research Triangle facility. I’ve never forgotten the evening. I remember the whine of the power supply and capacitors powering up. Then we heard the…
Another Independence Day Parade on Main Street of Wheaton Illinois is a memory. These are a few of the photos that remind me of how diverse and unique is the American experience. The course of historical events has brought us to this point in time and place. So, join me curbside to view the…
….it gets worse with Christian philosophy. the positing of immanence remains pure philosophical instituting, but at the same time it is tolerated only in very small doses; it is strictly controlled and enframed by the demands of an emanative and, above all, creative transcendence. Putting their work and sometimes their lives at risk, all…
Summerfest in Milwaukee is the best music festival that I’ve attended. Music and Nature are our reliable sources for life and renewal. Summerfest on the Milwaukee lakefront is the apotheosis of devotion for those of us who love music, who find in music the rhythm of life itself. I am informed that this is the…
The non-philosophical is perhaps closer to the heart of philosophy than philosophy itself, and this means that philosophy cannot be content to be understood only philosophically or conceptually, but is addressed essentially to non-philosophers as well. Both the creation of concepts and the instituting of a plane of immanence are required, like two wings…
I seldom travel into Chicago. As years have passed, I have less reason to visit the city. In the past we’d go frequently to experience the sights, the galleries along Superior, the sensation of the Mag Mile, and the festivals at Grant Park. For some of those years Laura worked in the city. Chicago…
