I confess to being a fan of Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen is the Homer of my generation. I make the assertion without apology. At the Tony Awards televised live on CBS from Radio City Music Hall Springsteen delivered an abbreviated rendition of his song My Hometown which was prefaced by a moving soliloquy remembering Freehold…
Reality is not mathematical, and mathematics is not the law of reality, but a language whose consistency has nothing to do with the multilayered consistency of life. Franco Berardi, excerpt from The Uprising, On Poetry and Finance
A friend just sent me additional photos of the Teton mountains. Everything in each of the three photos is magnificent. It is light that enables me to make this statement. Light streaming from the sun sculpted the magisterial peaks due to heat and cold, and wind-driven erosion. Light energized photosynthesis for the spruce, the…
This instagram photo posted by Prime Minister of Germany Angela Merkel is striking for the story that it tells. Note Prime Minister Abe of Japan’s stoic expression showing dismay. Stay tuned…………………..
I was asked by Melanie as she handed my coffee to me what I was working on this morning. I said, “I do not know. Something will come to me.” She smiled. I glanced at the front page of the New York Times. The Newspaper stand is adjacent to the counter for coffee additives,…
Waking I took the measure of my blood sugar. 50 mg/dcl was quite low, a partial explanation for my mental fog. NPR reported the death of Anthony Bourdain at 61 years of age this morning. My sense of malaise deepened. Bourdain was a superb story teller, a man who appreciated the rapture of fine…
Doing philosophy is a revolutionary activity. In these times of discord, suspicion, verbal assault, and sometimes overt expression of hatred–anyone who disciplines him or herself to mindfully exercise reason, speaking and writing with clarity is a subversive. Nothing is more antithetical to the mayhem, the pandemonium of “warfare,” than thoughtful communication. A family member…
The following lines are taken from a Situationist website, a brief comment written in the aftermath of the Trump election. I offer these words for the truth they convey, not as an endorsement of the Situationist Revolutionary philosophy. The Situationist International was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals,…
Family is not limited to those related by blood. I understand that more deeply as the years pass. The circle may be wide to include friends whose stories intersect our own. Each child that is born and welcomed into the family circle is a reminder of the generosity of heart and congeniality of spirit…
Lately I’ve the privilege to witness the email exchange between two friends on the topic of The Second Amendment and gun ownership. The exchange has been passionate, and to my sense, contentious at times. Yet, the topic represents a nexus of the present state of our society since firearms are a prominent aspect of…
