No one gets through their allotted span without a major off-script event. Something, somewhere, will go catastrophically wrong. Not potentially, or incidentally, but necessarily, because of the structure of human existence and of our appalling exposure to error, accident, madness and illness. Someone very important to us will die long before they should, in…
Heard this song on the radio yesterday. The lyrics keep coming back to me. I believe that it is much more than a simple love song. How difficult it is to make a pact with oneself to respect, to honor the integrity of one’s own one life. How difficult it is to accept ourselves,…
D’Arline, I adore you, sweetheart. I know how much you like to hear that — but I don’t only write it because you like it — I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to you. It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to…
A few days in Door County Wisconsin was just what we needed. We stayed four nights at the Sister Bay Inn. The sojourn in our comfortable room was existentially satisfying when we read the story of the inn keepers, Vilius and Alma Vaicekauskas. We had occasion to converse with them several times while we…
Another pleasant day exploring Door County Wisconsin. We visited Egg Harbor for breakfast. Then off to Carlsville for the Door County Coffee Company coffee shop. Not far away was the Door County Distillery and Winery. We purchased more wine than we could possibly drink. With the holidays coming up, I am sure that will…
This is my first visit to Door County Wisconsin. Door County is a peninsula with Green Bay to the west side of one shoreline, and Lake Michigan to the east of the other shore. It is the proximity of the great fresh water lake that shapes the environment and the way of life of…
The old idiot wanted the truth, but the new idiot wants to turn the absurd into the highest power of thought– in other words, to create. The old idiot wanted to be accountable only to reason. The new idiot, closer to Job than to Socrates wants account to be taken of “every victim of…
I have been thinking about the recent talk of atomic weapons that has become prominent in the ebb and flow of the news. The leader of North Korea has initiated a series of atomic tests culminating in a claim to now have a fusion weapon, a hydrogen bomb. To sharpen the point, long range…
The more massive a movement is, the more doctored and manipulated. The more it tends to be a mass lie, a front…… Genuine dissent must always keep a human measure. It must be free and spontaneous. The slighter gestures are often the more significant, because they are unpremeditated and they cannot be doctored beforehand…
With all the disruptions swirling around us, even if one is not directly impacted, — these are troubled times. I am dismayed for my countrymen in Northern California, and in Puerto Rico. Those who live in Houston and in the Florida Keys will suffer the hard labor of recovery for many months, perhaps years…
