After returning to home-base in the Mid-West I now am able to consider the weekend that we spent in Louisville, Kentucky. Our family has visited Louisville a number of times to be with old friends who reside there. Also, we support the recognition of the LGBTQ+ community for Pride month in June. Louisville features…
Sunday morning is relatively quiet at the Marriott Bonvoy where we are staying. Louisville is in the South. Sunday is a traditional “day of rest” in the South. This is a reflection of the fundamentalist Christian history of the area. English Protestantism left a deep mark in this part of the country. I am…
Our family is in Louisville Ky for a long weekend. We have memories of Louisville, since our youngest daughter attended college at a Kentucky school, and resided for a few years in Louisville. Louisville is a medium sized city on the southern side of the Ohio river. Historically Kentucky is a border state, divided…
Stop! Stop! Think for a moment. Light that left a distant star before your ancestors had language, only now is arriving before your eyes. The planet hurtles around our star at 67,000 miles per hour while I sit here drinking my hot beverage. You and I are living at a time when so many…
But you’ve gotta make your own kind of musicSing your own special songMake your own kind of musicEven if nobody else sings along. Once more lyric and melody by The Mama’s and the Pappa’s emanated above us at Starbucks. The voice of Cass Eliot was arresting. We interrupted our conversation to agree how much…
Monday arrives in splendor of sunlight. I discovered a very tiny sprouting “volunteer” cucumber plant in my garden. The diminutive life survived months of winter to sprout on occasion of warm sunlight and spring rains. I rescued the seedling for transfer to a water filled vase. It’s about one inch in length. This will…
A gray and rain-soaked Sunday morning, I take sip after sip of hot coffee to dispel a sense of funk. Until late in Saturday evening my attention was focused upon family related responsibility, the privilege of celebrating graduation of a grandson from high school. This is the milestone-dividing line between childhood and adulthood. Learning…
Saturday arrives. Brilliant with sunlight, a retention pond just outside Starbucks is full with recent rain, the surface dances white light, a plate of diamonds. Today stands to be a full one. The “big event” will be the pig-roast late in the day. A family member (who constructed the roaster over 20 years ago),…
…we understand our situationas one of high tragedy,alone in a silent universe,without intrinsic meaning,condemned to create value. But at a later moment, the same doctrine, by its own inherent bent,yields a flattened world,in which there aren’t very meaningful choicesbecause there aren’t any crucial issues. The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor, The Slide to…
…authenticity too comes to be understood, as its own goal. It is born, out of a shift in the center of gravity of the moral demand on us: self-truth and self-wholeness are seen more and more not as means to be moral, as independently defined, but as something valuable for their own sake. …the…
