Praying the Covid away ! It isn’t working. Sure, we have the freedom to wear or not wear a mask, to infect or not infect your family members or neighbors,…. The virus roars on, not unlike an out of control forest fire, driven by the Santa Ana wind of American “freedom.” How are we…
Friday brings the expectation of rain at midday. Always I welcome the arrival of rain. Drought is the condition that concerns me most here in the mid-West. Weather patterns are crucial to the well being of all living things, the trees growing here before my arrival as well as the arbor vitae shrubs that…
“The virus is circulating at a speed that not even the most pessimistic forecasts had anticipated,” Macron said in a televised address. “Like all our neighbours, we are submerged by the sudden acceleration of the virus.” “We are all in the same position: overrun by a second wave which we know will be harder,…
Fall has come gently, with a hint of frost in late October. The trees are well into shedding their leaves. I walked around the backyard holding my camera. I wanted photographs to help me remember this day. Today is ten days out from the election. Would I remember this day as one of…
Last night we discussed an excerpt from Yuval Harari’s book. The segment was titled The Meaning of Life In A world Without Work. Perhaps you detect the minor, yet major difference between the title of my thoughts about living in a world where work is relentlessly reduced by the application of artificial intelligence, and…
Kabuki (歌舞伎) is a classical Japanese dance-drama. Kabuki theatre is known for the stylization of its drama, the often-glamorous costumes worn by performers, and for the elaborate kumadori make-up worn by some of its performers. — Wikipedia Judge Barrett is from the South and Midwest….
Religion and politics are hot buttons. That has always been true. A long list of deadly conflicts could be composed without difficulty. Both of these topics are a “third rail.” Advice is widely known that these topics ought to be avoided in polite company. Would you solicit opinion about politics with relatives whom you…
Yesterday I enjoyed the rare privilege of lunch with a good friend at a restaurant which we both find delightful. We met at Taste of Paris in Mundelein. In the middle of the week, we had the dining room to ourselves. Under these conditions of increasing covid-19 contagion it felt safer to dine alone. …
Yesterday I found time to take a short bike ride along the river path to the North Aurora dam. The river is less swollen within its banks than my last visit some weeks ago to this spot. Just below the dam on the bank under a bit of shade I read more from America…
We had our philosophy discussion last night, six of us using one of the online video chat tools. The question of the evening: Is goodness natural? Certainly we could have wrestled with the definition of each of those terms. I have thought about this question in its many variants for years. The three words…
