RECIPE FOR REMAKING A WORLD Ingredients: ugliness, unfairness, suffering, poverty, terror, rage, sadness, etc. Most of which is no one’s fault, the cause being diffuse, shared, distributed, so that blame cannot be focally assigned. A majority of us are touched by these circumstances, and feel that there is nothing we can do, no one…
Tuesday morning, when I customarily compose the day’s post, I will be under the influence of anesthesia, Propofol most likely. I can attest that the drug produces a dreamless sleep. When the drug is administered, consciousness winks out. There is no sliver of fading, just light and then nothing. Waking is not unpleasant, as…
The election results are in! The French people with the good sense of self preservation have stepped away from the brink, choosing to move ahead rather than back. The work of nurturing a great family, or a great society is a multi-generational project. There is much to overcome, debris of past mistakes which must…
First agenda item of the day: breakfast at Taste of Paris. Its a favorite Cafe and we look forward to the weekly visit. The waitstaff are always welcoming, familiar faces due to our patronage of many months. France has been much on my mind. Today they are holding a national election. At stake is…
I walked across the parking lot at 7AM, a sunlit morning in May. A silver corvette was parked in the center of two parking spaces. As I walked by a young female approached the passengers side of the vehicle with coffee for two. A young male waited in the drivers side, his baseball cap…
Yesterday Thorsday, when the news feed came across that the House had passed the Obamacare replacement act, I was palpably nauseated. Predictably the Tribune front page of this morning featured a picture of the President flanked by his fawning palace guard, applauding the event in the White House Rose Garden. Emotionally this seems like…
Thursday is without rain, at least not yet. This morning my sister came to mind. I spoke with her by phone yesterday, understanding with difficulty her speech. She has battled schizophrenia and diabetes for her entire adult life. Today she expects to meet with a surgeon. She is in pain due to an infection…
…this sluggish paradise. A human being protected from all normal and natural hardship simply is not alive. We inhabit insecurely a world which must of its intransitory nature be insecure. The tyranny of mindless technology. It is well to use the wheel. But it is fatal to be bound to it. We are trapped…
THE DIAGNOSIS This generation of Americans has become so steeped in greed and social Darwinism that it can no longer distinguish between cheating and achieving, between enterprise and crime and can’t bring itself to criticize winners any more than it knows how to be nice to losers. An increasing number of Americans agree that…
More rain and some pics from today’s NY Times. And then there is a need that each should understand where he came from and what he is—- and what will become of him. –Wulfstan, Archbishop of York from 1002 to 1023
