Mindful processing traces of external reality, is the lifeline for sentient life.
Murano is the birthplace of Venetian glass. We did not have opportunity to visit the island, a short distance from Venice in the lagoon. Many years ago my younger adult self imagined that I could launch a business that marketed American hot glass art pieces to overseas customers. This dream proved to be unrealistic…
I believe that more people staying put, learning their place, and taking an active role would improve our social and ecological life. I have said that people should try to become “paysan, paisanos, peons” in the meaning –people of the land—people of the place. But note: there’s no limit to how big the place…
You cannot talk of colors to the blind. But a still greater ill than blindness is delusion. Delusion believes that it sees, and that it sees in the only possible manner, even while this its belief robs it of sight. What Is Called Thinking by Martin Heidegger, Part II, Lecture…
Saturday afternoon was spent strolling around the pit area at Great Lakes Drag-a-way at Union Grove, Wisconsin. For many years I’ve come here to renew my interest, to delight in the wild, marginally controllable experience of drag racing. Is it a sport, the competition between two purpose-built race cars, to “see” which accelerates to…
