Thursday, presents as an idealized summer’s day. Rainfall has been sufficient here, though late summer is often dry. As is my custom the last hour or so I’ve been situated at Starbucks. Several cups of flavorful, hot coffee, reading, and satisfying conversation filled the time. I continue to read Rediscovery of Awe by Kirk…
What to write? Morning dawns in majesty, sun on the horizon as a god, blazing with light and life. A retention pond at the rear of Starbucks where I customarily begin each day, is stunning in reflective stillness. The sky is brought down to earth: heaven & earth. There’s a white egret who sometimes…
Living at this time, but wait, – to be alive at any time in the arc of human habitation on this planet — seemed/seems hard. How else to put the matter. Living well in the “thrownness” of indifferent circumstances is a formidable challenge. That said, we “lucky” ones, recipients of higher strata of education…
Perhaps you’ve not had occasion to read one of the translations of the Odyssey. I have not. Perhaps a suitable on-ramp for reading the text is a viewing of Christopher Nolan’s film, which features Matt Damon as Odysseus. Odysseus in Homer’s tale is the king of legendary Ithaca, an island kingdom in the Ionian…
Sunday comes with the promise of sunshine in the afternoon. Day after day for three days showers have come, when August is typically a dry month. I am thankful for the rain though I am compelled to mow the lawn 2x per week for a while. How happy I feel to see the creek…
Saturday with a gentle rain. For the past two or three days it has rained off and on. Meteorologists describe a heat dome parked over the midwest, circulating humidity, moisture-laden air, elevated heat, interfacing with cooler flows, thus rain and sometimes high winds. So, plans are adjusted to the prevailing outdoor conditions; I lingered…
What matters in your life today? What challenges and opportunities will I engage? I have plans in mind. Will nature endorse, go along with my intention to replace the missing bolt in the rotating blade of my Briggs and Straton powered tiller or, – not? Thunderstorms are expected for later today. Nature, that neighborhood…
Vs. 80 Let there be a little country without many people. Let them have tools that do the work of ten or a hundred, and never use them. Let them be mindful of death and disinclined to long journeys. They’d have ships and carriages, but no place to go. They’d have armor and weapons,…
Vs. 76 Living people are soft and tender. Corpses are hard and stiff. The ten thousand things, the living grass, the trees, are soft, pliant. Dead, they’re dry and brittle. So hardness and stiffness go with death; Tenderness, softness, go with life. And the hard sword fails, and the stiff tree’s felled. The hard…
We’ve all been there. I entertained a purpose, certainly I’ll post something this morning… Then, no matter the effort the Lenovo laptop would not link to the Starbucks wifi. My I-phone found the signal… And yes, I looked at the settings, and nothing was amiss. Having allowed such a circumstance to grow into a…
