I approached the Fox River this morning on Fayban Parkway, the sky was smoky, a low hanging mix of Canada Wildfire haze and high humidity. I remembered reading the New York Times report that as the climate warms wild fires, storms, floods and extreme heat are going to increase across our country. Some areas…
That said, it’s difficult not to think of the present day as a tipping point (a word used a great deal in discussions of climate change). And since none of us are PhD scientists who have written dozens of papers on the impact of humanity on the environment (at least I don’t believe any…
Another passage that should bear no further comment. Is it enough to raise one’s voice in resistance to the denial of history , to thinly veiled misogyny in red-state anti-abortion laws, to indifference to lying by candidates for public office, to climate warming denial,… That is to write or to speak as opportunity affords…
Hatred, on the other hand, places people on a par, vis-a-vis; in hatred there is honor; finally, in hatred there is fear, …. a good and ample element of fear. We fearless ones, however, we more spiritual human beings of this age, we know our own advantage well enough to live without fear of…
You can’t start a fire Worrying about your little world falling apart This gun’s for hire Even if we’re just dancing in the dark –Dancing In The Dark by Bruce Springsteen Discussed with a friend, what to do about the yawning gap in perception between republicans, some supporting Trump unconditionally, maybe more who support…
What the hell has happened to me? How does one explain to oneself, to justify even, — on occasion being called a “moral relativist” ? The term is not meant as a complement. It’s a near epithet, a label of derision… Of course the speaker means that I come across, am perceived as one…
We are surrounded by technology. The skill of mankind has grown exponentially since the early industrial age, and then since the time of Bohr and Heisenberg and a host of others, names not so well known. I’ve known a few researchers, — scientists, physicists, chemists, engineers whose curiosity and meticulous work has produced products…
So, is this the final act, a horizon which we did not see because our eyes did not reach that far? I am referring to the experiment of America, that we thought was “noble,” a special nation, as Madeleine Albright said in 1998, — the Indispensable Nation. A city shining, set on a hill,…
I stayed up late last night to watch the breaking news on ABC: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis read a RICO indictment against former president Donald Trump, accusing him and a circle of associates of attempting to steal a presidential election. Upon reflection it seems poetic-justice, (if there is any justice in this…
At the Paramount Theater in Aurora we were present for the Happy Together Tour concert. Songs written in our youth, over fifty years ago were performed by The Turtles, Little Anthony, Gary Puckett, The Vogues, The Classics IV and The Cowsills. Arriving early we waited for the doors to open just outside the auditorium. …
