Whenever this song is played on the radio, the bright guitar licks, as well as the sparkling harmonies of the voices are enchanting. Without question the lyrics are dark. Does the contrast give the tune its power? Language conceals the complicated, many layered nuance of homo sapiens, the language-enabled-mammal. The story line has to…
We visited the Cosley Zoo yesterday. Cosley Zoo is a small zoo in Wheaton, Illinois, scaled for toddlers and older children. At the zoo you get a close-up look at animals, wild and domestic. The visit was greatly enjoyed. Our grand daughter certainly will remember for many years the animals which are cared for,…
This afternoon seems more chill than 35 degrees F. The sky is an oppressive grey, a bowl of achromatic glass, horizon to horizon. I cannot delay writing some words until I happen to be inspired. Why delay? Tomorrow is not foreseen, and is as likely to be gray as of sunlight. A tune performed…
The questions that [Nietzsche] posed touch on tragedy, laughter, suffering, and the enjoyment of suffering, wealth, and the freedom of the mind: in general, the extreme states the human mind can reach. …His doctrine of dangerous life, of lucid, unbound, contemptuous humanity, is foreign to public struggles. It concerns solitaries hostile to the universe….
A friend is gone. Al Lykins passed away a few weeks ago. I miss having coffee with Al, swapping stories about life. Al was a teller of stories, an enchanter. I know that Al’s time to go arrived. It is impossible not to wish there had been more time. Al was a Buddhist. I…
But without the night, without despair, and without the irremediable terror that strikes me would I have known the inaccessible happiness of the summit? …Responding, out of breath, to the moral interrogation that I proposed to myself in anguish, I would be forever separated. By letting the interrogation open within me like a wound,…
To go to the summit, to put oneself at risk without reason at least a reason that can be stated, to propose a summit as a summit, to risk only for the love of anguish. …a conclusion: we can only speak of a summit by altering it, making it equal to decline. But we…
…burning desire in search of “communication.” Desire in “communication” bears essentially on the beyond of the being. But this beyond is not only the nothingness that limits us, toward which we throw ourselves, wanting to touch another being; it is at the same time the interrogation of the being that we are. …We can…
Roll The Bones By Rush Well, you can stake that claimGood work is the key to good fortuneWinners take that praiseLosers seldom take that blameIf they don’t take that gameAnd sometimes the winner takes nothingWe draw our own designsBut fortune has to make that frame We go out in the world and take our…
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll published in 1865 has been overlooked. I hope to “catch up” with this widely recognized tale soon. Amazon offered a paperback copy for $2.95 and I expect the book to arrive sometime Friday. Time and space distortion is a feature of the story as I am given…
