I considered writing about the Texas High School shooting. A lot has been written already in the NY Times, the Washington Post and other sources. Another breakout of violence will roil the Texas community for years. Surely the families who lost kids will be shattered for as long as they live. My expression of…
Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? One is tempted to answer “yes” or answer “no.” Then to follow up with a discussion on the latest findings on brain research. Alternatively there is the description of objectively measurable parameters of proportion, of design technique. To take either side is an interesting game. I’ve…
In life, a man commits himself, draws his own portrait and there is nothing but that portrait. *** If I have excluded God the Father, there must be somebody to invent values. We have to take things as they are. Life is nothing until it is lived. *** Man is all the time outside…
I am diabetic. Finding no sugar added ice cream makes me happy. The taste is perfect, with no sugar added. I think these words by Herman Hesse make the point. In every truth the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided….
Thursday evening six of us sat around a small table at Taste of Paris. Wine, coffee, steamed clams, pastries, were a satisfying accompaniment to conversation that ranged from Mach Picchu, Peru, to the nature of daily life in antiquity, infuseded by awareness of divinity. And, I believe that Barry managed to keep tabs with…
….and the soul is just a car. What an interesting wide-ranging discussion last night! Around fifteen or so of us sat together in the Coffee Shop and discussed ideas expressed by Plato in his treatment of Socrates, awaiting the carrying out of the death sentence imposed by the Athenian Assembly. Perhaps there are worse…
Played a vintage Springsteen CD while driving yesterday. It was the “Live in New York City” CD. I did not attend the Madison Square Garden concert of July 1, 2000. By chance some time later I happened to catch rebroadcast of the concert while in a hotel room in Columbia Kentucky. The power of…
And freedom, oh freedom well, that’s just some people talkin’ –Desperado lyrics by Glenn Frey, Don Henley There’s a lot of talk about freedom going around. Seems like more talk than ever. Perhaps the talk is in inverse proportion to the degree/quality of freedom that we are currently experiencing? When one has enough of…
Yesterday a friend posted the word “freedom” along with a dictionary definition or two, and several paragraphs of personal commentary. The challenge to the reader was to help with a definition of freedom, something that is useful as a guide for behavior. Clearly freedom is something that all of us value, and it would…
I found it impossible to write this morning. My mind ruminated on the possible outcomes of the challenges represented by my to-do list for Monday. A rolling-tangle of dark anxiety was all that I could come up with. I staggered inwardly with nothing to say. Silence is preferable to adding to any readers quotient…
