555. We ought to avoid events when we know that even the least important of them frequently enough leave a strong impression upon us —and these we cannot avoid. —The thinker must possess an approximate canon of all the things he still wishes to experience. These three aphorisms, or put differently, pearls of wisdom…
What will preserve us from this unlimited frenzy, this desire to abolish the horizon as perpetual line of flight, as virtual line of flight which must remain virtual, But which we are crossing today -towards that ‘event horizon’ beyond which nothing happens, nothing has meaning any longer and whence not even light escapes. The…
Six AM and it was pitch black. In the sky a blinding white moon, a crescent sharper than any blade. I felt cold bite into my face. I drove the winding neighborhood street. Three black forms moved across a yard to pass just out of headlight range. Deer. Absolutely those wild animals were hungry….
A day or so ago, I was seated as is my habit, here at Starbucks. Midwestern winters have returned, with single digit cold and some snow. Also who is not weary with the media onslaught, the hash of Trumpism? The spirit of the age is that of toxic patriarchy. My instincts are on-alert. The…
The new administration is moving at warp speed. Tech moguls skurrey, gathering as baby chicks around a brood hen, to Trump. The New York Times reports that new leaders are quickly being appointed to the U. S. Prosecutors offices. The President believes with justification that he has carte blanche to act at will. More…
We can only arriveat a clear conception of immortalityin a stable, unchanging universe.In a universe where a divine sanctionensures the continuity of the cosmic order (Kepler’s universe),immortality is akin to a natural propertyof the human microcosm.It is merely the logical extensionof the continuity of an order.The universe could not change since allis ordained by…
THE SECOND COMING Turning, turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconerThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Turning and turning in the widening gyreMere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all convictions, while the worst Are full…
I have no plans to join millions around the world viewing the inauguration. I’d rather dedicate my awareness to other things. I imagine Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Chew – appointed members of the royal court. They will occupy prime seating close to the man forwarded to the oval office by a system that long since…
This short story is one of the most remarkable I’ve ever read! How is it possible for a male to express with such insight, aspects of pregnancy which only a female is directly acquainted? Surely the description of such an expectation of ‘the unknown’ must be attributed to extraordinary observation. And then the hidden…
I purchased a painting by the late artist, Ed Dlugopolski, who lived in Batavia. I did not know Ed. I am sure that I would have enjoyed his company. Ed was an art educator. He taught high school. The acrylic painting is called, The Innocent Victims of War. Ed’s painting cannot be labeled as…
