There are songs, — one song alone for which I’d pay the full price of a concert ticket, to hear performed live. Never mind the rest of the set list, a single melody and lyric would make the ticket outlay, as well as the effort to reach the venue, the expense of time, —…
There is a last time for everything. The first day of Fall was yesterday, September 22nd. I picked up my camera, earlier in the week with the intention of capturing a final collection of Summer flower photos from Almond Marsh. Summer ends and Fall begins. That’s a logical deduction, a necessity of thought is…
“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!” —…
Tomorrow officially Fall begins. It has been a hot dry summer, with a big deficit in moisture. When the maples shed leaves on account of heat stress I take note. I am ready for Fall. Should we not celebrate seasonal change by gathering a few friends together for quiet conversation, for sharing a found…
“‘Now if love is always for this,’ she proceeded, ‘what is the method of those who pursue it, and what is the behavior whose eagerness and straining are to be termed love? What actually is this effort? Can you tell me?’ “‘Ah, Diotima,’ I said; ‘in that case I should hardly be admiring you…
Is anything comparable to music to say what can only be said indirectly, approached by metaphor? Absent any belief in heaven, — do THEY not all live, in us!? Rock And Roll Heaven by The Righteous Brothers If you believe in forever Then life is just a one-night stand If there’s a rock n’…
Little to say this morning. The Starbucks room vibe parallels my subdued mood. With difficulty I listened to the morning news report on NPR. A business reporter described the decline in business activity among small businesses, restaurants, particularly in the states impacted with Delta virus. Large numbers of un-vaccinated fellow citizens have wide spread…
The exchange of ideas began with the presentation of research notes. Five of us submitted summaries of our findings, our considerations on the prospect of building-from-scratch higher education. Perhaps it is obvious that college and post graduate studies are out of reach financially for a large majority of high school students desiring to continue. …
I witnessed, an extended email exchange between two friends which treated the topic of vengeance, rage-filled violence. The pivot point of the discussion had to do with a comparison/contrast between the palpable expression, the gorge-filled uprising of murderous wrath, and the more benign fictional, hypothetical contemplation of this emotional storm, such as we find…
Charlie Watts died on August 24. He was eighty. Watts played drums for the Rolling Stones since 1963. Is it trite to say that Watts passing marks the end of an era? There, I have said it and will say it again. A great deal of what we’ve taken for granted and relied upon…
