We attended the Walworth County Fair. I look forward to the drive to Elkhorn Wisconsin. The fair is one of the few remaining old fashioned agriculturally-based county fairs. While inside the homemaking arts exhibit building I noticed a individual standing at a computerized sewing machine. She was guiding the sewing head lazer dot, tracing…
A good discussion last night on the topic of “violence.” I continue to mull over the concluding idea of the evening,–a reversal of the common place notion of “the good.” Here is a quote from Zizek, “According to the traditional ideological commonplace, immortality is linked to the good and mortality to evil: what makes…
Exile. That is what I feel this morning. Tuesday after the Labor Day weekend, and already there is a autumn chill in the air. Too soon, too early to anticipate the frost. I feel wrecked by life, by the chain of events that have led me, led us to this point. We have a…
I often encounter Reno, a friend, while attending to reading and writing at Starbucks. We’ve shared satisfying exchange of stories on a number of occasions. Certainly we do not know a lot about each other. But the insight gained through the story telling has effected a change within my personality, my mode of being….
Yesterday was a sunny Saturday. After some yard work I headed to the office in Long Grove to tie up a few loose ends. Loose ends prey on the mind, until they are properly connected. After about 20 minutes, satisfied that all was taken care of, I decided to visit the new Buffalo Creek…
I read a review in the New Yorker about a book of poems entitled Night by Etel Adnan. The next day I submitted my order to Amazon. For many years I have carried a copy of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets in my briefcase where ever i go. Adnan’s work will join the Eliot…
In the Philosophy Discussion Group we are considering the work of Slavoj Zizek. Zizek is a prolific writer and a popular lecturer. He is a culture critic, a commentator upon contemporary life in these times. His method is dialectical as he comes from a Marxist background. Zizek often mentions communism, that failed recipe for…
There are seasons of life. In the late 1970’s I was a student learning to swim in the vast ocean of philosophy. With a bit more focus next I studied at Garrett Evangelical Divinity School in Evanston. I assumed the professional end of all of the study was to become a Christian minister. For…
The Long Grove Arts and Music Council held it’s last free concert for 2017. I joined the townspeople on Towner Green Sunday afternoon to hear Scott Ainslie and Reggie Harris. These artists carry the song and story telling heritage of our country, especially of the ante bellum South. Indeed the story of humanity is…
Decided to take Monday for a visit to the Chicago Botanical Garden. This garden is world class, an expanse of sculpted land and water displaying a sublime array of plants. Calling a rare time out from work, I gathered my camera, and a book. Laura and I left for a few hours of paradise….
