I’ve mentioned that on Wednesday in the early morning hours the suburbs north of Chicago were struck by a series of thunder storms and torrential rain. The towns of Mundelein, Gurnee and Libertyville received in excess of 6 inches of water within the span of 4 to 5 hours. Before light my sleep was…
How much is enough? The question arises often and in many forms. The time came for transition from employer based medical insurance coverage to Medicare. Transition has proven to be challenging, complex, with a fair amount of anxiety. After all who cannot be protective of physical health once the youthful stage of life has…
To think the thought of weaponized Nature is to entertain dissonance of heretofore contradictory ideas. Nature is conceived as the totality of a life supporting, living context that common sense tells us that we are a part. A weapon is a human artifact created for the purpose of taking life. For humans life is…
It is raining hard, a deluge for the past 20 minutes. At 6AM this morning upon waking there were signs that the downpour, with thunder and lightening of the early morning hours had passed. The sky was much lighter, and nothing was falling, the birds were singing. Standing in my driveway I encountered a…
I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn’t frighten me. –Richard Feynman quoted from The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by…
One final musing from my Summerfest experience. We typically take one of the festival shuttles into Milwaukee’s Maer Festival Park. Leaving our vehicle at the Ryan Park and Ride lot saves the trouble of dealing with city traffic, as well as finding and paying for parking. One pays the bus driver $7 for the…
Maybe you’ve never been to Summerfest in Milwaukee? Today is the final day of the eleven day festival on the Lake Front. I’ve attended Summerfest for many years. The event is comprised of thousands of fellow Americans. Americans from a kaleidoscope of ethnic backgrounds, ways of life, and taste in music. For the price…
Yes, we are going again. Summerfest Milwaukee will be the destination for the afternoon and evening. We hope to experience the music of Dennis DeYoung and Styx at 10PM tonight. The atmospherics will crackle with the electricity of sensuality, of reality, of life and death as DeYoung performs his lyrics of Lady, and Come…
The Media by C.H. Sisson (What and Who, 1994): 1 The world is fabricated by A gang of entertainers who Have replaced God Almighty. The universe, made in six days, Is re-made every day by those Who hear all that the newsman says, For whom fact is replaced by gloze. 2 The air is…
We attended the Independence Day parade in Wheaton for the second year. Its an old fashioned “people’s parade” with many volunteer organizations, businesses, civic groups, churches, and of course government officials making up the procession. The event lasts for at least an hour. Main street Wheaton is a long, broad, straight road stretching for…
