Friday morning at Baptist Health here in Louisville. I didn’t expect to be here at this time. Yesterday I received word that our daughter lost the baby that was due in another month. The news came as a shock, a lightning strike on a clear day. The pregnancy had proceeded normally with regular checkups. …
Anticipating the final days of 2017, and the beginning of the New Year of 2018 do we not all probe the future with our awareness? We hope, and some pray for conditions of health, well-being, and comity between family members, friends, and indeed the nations of the world. In 1970 I performatively enacted this…
I am interested in war. My interest is a profound irony because by temperament I am “bookish” as some would say. I like a good story, wherever I can find one. I have plans to read Homer, and have purchased several translations. I know it’s a good story. I viewed the film The Last…
What do you want? The thought came this morning while reading. I am looking forward to the start of a new year of philosophical work with friends. That seems to be the only way to understand what it is that I want from life….. I have concluded that I need help, that working on…
A seasonal light blanket of snow fell yesterday. The cold has arrived. The seasons continue as they have before humans were around to mark the passage of time, or even to conceive of time. If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around…… (A Christmas joke for Gary.) These photo’s were…
Not much to say this morning. Arrived at the usual time at Starbucks. Heather and Keith were behind the counter. Christmas greetings were exchanged and my cup of coffee was served. Tony had arrived before me and was seated with his laptop in place, already working. There was no one else around. Tony and…
This is the hard part. The final installment of my evaluation of Christmas is where I must make clear my measure of the Christ event. Christmas entails more than the new-born infant, the manger scene so beloved by the religious oriented pitchman. There’s profit in Christmas for the retailer as well as the religious…
I finished reading the Gospel of John, all twenty-one chapters. Unlike the other three gospels this is not a copy and paste, vignettes of Jesus’s sayings and deeds. This is an esoteric interpretation of Jesus. He is human, but in a manner that defies the term ordinary. He has insight, access to the deep…
The President and Republicans do a happy dance !! Deficit of (at least) 1.5 trillion is born in Washington. Do you hear what I hear? .
We are enjoying a break in the late Fall chill in the Mid-West. Today I worked outside for a few hours, enjoying the freedom of working without cumbersome gloves, wearing a light jacket. The session of work was made all the more agreeable thanks to good company. Scott and I ranged from discussing our…
