What do you do when you can’t sleep? Too much caffeine maybe? Or is it the picture of the kid that haunts me? I’ve been thinking of him since this past Wednesday when I glimpsed his picture in the NY Times. The boy lives in Aleppo. He was pulled bleeding but alive from the…
Kevin said it best. The theme of the event was gratitude. Time, effort were expended by everyone present, each according to his or her capacity. How do you find your kin? For our family, the annual “Pig Pickin” hosted by Kevin and Caryn in their backyard gets the job done. Kevin said that the…
My tomato harvest of the summer is unprecedented. I’ve cultivated squash, cucumbers, eggplant and tomato plants at the back of the yard for years. That patch gets the most sun. I learn a bit with each season of experience. Working with living things is trial and error. There are a few things which I…
A visit to the Wisconsin State Fair in West Allis, just outside of Milwaukee is immersion in a great festival. Seduction is the word. The sights and sounds are counterpoint to the mundane of one’s life. Milwaukee Wisconsin has a reputation for good beer. I ordered two cups of Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy. The waitress…
While the idea of paradise is on my mind, I’ll reference Lake Geneva Wisconsin. If you live in the Chicago or Milwaukee area you are familiar with the town, at the end of a gorgeous lake. The Persian word for paradise meant a walled garden. Lake Geneva is remarkable for it’s beautiful lake, and…
Old Heraclitus was right. “πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει” Every thing changes and nothing remains. I found a cicada exoskeleton attached under a leaf while examining my garden. Cicadas have been featured in literature since Homers Illiad. They are short lived. They sing loudly in chorus from the trees, a undulating cacophony, the song of…
Some quotes from The Administration of Fear, –a meditation on technology, globalization, mass communication, and fear. The earth is shrinking and space is dwindling, compressed by instantaneous time. Carried along by the headlong rush of an increasingly accelerated world, all we can do is manage and administer this fear instead of deal with it…
Apogee is a term that I heard often when I was much younger, when space exploration was new. Rockets and satellites were often in the news. The apogee was the maximum point of flight at which gravity would overcome the energy of momentum and the launch vehicle begins its reentry arc into the earths…
I am a Christian. For me it would be impossible to be otherwise. I cannot separate myself from my upbringing. I do not think that I would if I could. My world view is conditioned by Christian thought forms and evaluations. However it has been many years since regular attendance at Sunday worship services. …
Here are a few lines which I lifted from Donald Trump’s acceptance speech of his nomination for the presidency of our country, delivered on Thursday evening July 21st. I have visited the laid-off factory workers, and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of…
