Thus goes the bodythrough history,a becomer and fighter. And the spirit — what is it to the body?Its fights’and victories’herald, its companionand echo. Nietzsche/Zarathustra refers time and time again to the wisdom of the body. The body is the conduit, our interface with external reality. An ongoing theme is emphasis on what the body…
Tell me… how is it that gold is attributed the highest value? Because it is uncommon, and nonfunctional, and beaming, and soft in lustre; it always bestows itself. Only as image of the highest virtue came gold to the highest value. Goldlike, beams the glance of the bestower. Gold-lustre makes peace between moon and…
Marriage. Men ought to think more on this topic, and say much less. We (males) are without a clue on the matter. Nietzsche, a scholar with a razor wit, writes in his ironic style to treat marriage. Notwithstanding his notable failure at love. Nietzsche met Lou Andreas-Salomé in Rome in 1882. He was instantly…
Today is Monday. It is tempting to characterize this passage: The Poison Fly Soliloquy. Thousands of business owners in Europe, Asia, and in America are weary, and wary as one becomes when forced to swat away swarms of stinging gnats. The “on again”, “paused again” (for 90 days) tariffs become positively maddening for anyone…
It is Saturday. Nature, sunrise with the warming of spring, – proceeds impassively. The bedrock of reality is cause and effect as far as I can tell. I find comfort in that. There, in Nature is my refuge from being whipsawed by revulsion, or by terror, or by avarice, by hope, or by _____….
This Friday begins with magnificent sunlight. Nature is our mother, the beginning and the ending of my/our individual stories. This story penned by Nietzsche requires two movements. Tomorrow I will offer part 2. As you’ve noticed it’s a conversation between a young adult (male or female) and Zarathustra. “Zarathustra,” Nietzsche’s mouthpiece, is a mysterious…
Unaccountably I woke an hour before the alarm. Better to get an early start on a Friday than to insist upon sleep, when already awake. So with ample time at Starbucks, I read a three page commentary that I found on the internet which treats Truth and Lies Beyond Morality. I regret that I…
It is Monday. Am I “in the groove” of a first work-day of the week? “Work” in my case no longer involves customers, employees, contractors, scheduling and profit. Where has destiny, the complicated twists and turns of circumstance, and of people led me, – what is “on my plate,” what I must do? That…
Thinking about Ennui. It becomes clear that a response to ignorance, to the ill-will of sexism, to racism, to homophobia, and to tribalism, is to withdraw from excruciating pain. Ennui is the response of shock, an inward cringing, a “just too much” at the horror. This is a normal, healthy sign that one remains…
Friday, the end of the week! An ending involves a beginning. Opposite meanings, each defines the other. You cannot have one without the other. Both terms are symbols, linguistic markers used to make sense of time. Making sense is something we humans cannot do without. Primitive and mammalian, the reflex to cry out, soon…
