An hour plus was spent reading Nietzsche’s account – the pre-Socratic philosophers struggle, one after another to “explain”, to express to their own satisfaction, the nature of Being. Is Being singular and indivisible? If so does that mean that all that we experience, the multiplicity and the change in every direction is illusion and…
This is a controversial image. Street Art by definition is subversive, a point blank interrogation of the received, official interpretation of events. The war between the IDF and Hamas grinds on. “Grind,” is the word. The densely populated landscape of Gaza continues to be pulverized by artillery, by IDF airstrikes in order to eliminate…
December 21st. The dark outside is palpable reminder. Today is the shortest day of the year. The tilt of the earth’s axis away from the sun is at an oblique angle in the northern hemisphere. Is the dark evil, the diminished light an omen? On the other hand might we celebrate this interlude, pause…
The life is due to the collecting of the breath. When that is collected, there is life; when it is dispersed, there is death. Since death and life thus attend on each other, why should I account (either of) them an evil? ‘Therefore all things go through one and the same experience. (Life) is…
It is Sunday and there’s snow outside. The first snow of the season is falling, just enough to make driving hazardous. Pay no attention to that slush slicked intersection and you are courting an expensive, inconvenient surprise that possibly will involve another of your townspeople. There is no other place that I’d rather be…
In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him. 2 And Man gave unto God a multitude of names, that he might be Lord of all the earth when it was suited to Man 3 And on the seven millionth day Man rested and did lean heavily on…
Master Zhuangzi and Master Hui were walking on the dam over the Hâo, when the former said, ‘These thryssas come out and play about at their ease; – that is the enjoyment of fishes.’ The other said, ‘You are not a fish; how do you know what constitutes the enjoyment of fishes?’ Master Zhuangzi…
Myth, a fabulous story of a single individual of destiny, that inscrutable intersection of circumstance has placed on the pivot point of choice! Is it to be “life”, or will it be “death”, capitulation to maintain things as they are, to remain asleep? What will you do with your life? The great wager, a…
A group of us attempted to better understand what is meant by culture. Isn’t culture tacitly agreed upon habits of behavior, norms of a common life, a form-of-life shared? Expectations are built up gradually by observation and practice. So much becomes “as if” instinct, imprinted habit. I simply know how to act, and how…
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. …
