Today I awakened before dawn intent on walking into nearby Almond Marsh before sunrise. I enjoy taking a walk with camera in hand. Predictably the camera is an aid to careful observation. A camera is a mechanical device that records only what the lens captures, without the distractions of a human mind. Are we…
I want to do things that I did when I was sixteen. I would spend hours walking in the woods, in any season. I carried a Mars Chocolate Bar in one pocket, my hunting knife on my belt, my 22 rifle in my hand, and a box of 50 shells in the other pocket. …
The day begins in darkness. That is not new. What is new is the effort of the President of the United States to overthrow the result of the election. The days ahead will be critical. And what of the seventy two million who offered him their votes, who believe the Presidents version of “reality?” …
I did not remain awake til midnight for the departure of the old year to celebrate the new. Just before turning in I glimpsed television images of the Times Square “celebration” in New York. The scene was outlandish, devoid of crowds, just the TV personalities outfitted as if attending a monster’s ball. The rhetoric…
I have mixed thoughts about Christmas. Given that the story of Christmas happens to be about a working class couple, without adequate shelter, with responsibility to care for a new born child, — as long as my home is a “Christian” country that girdles the world with military bases, and has a military budget…
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are. The saying is not original to me. It’s something I read and never forgot. Another argument for reading widely. Reading can save one’s life. Too often I find myself in a ditch, having painted all that I perceive with the color of…
People talk about melting pots,America’s a melting pot, South Africa’s a melting pot,melting pot, melting pot…What you forget is that what’s making the things in the pot meltis the fire….. There are no diverse places in the worldwhere people just came there for good times. — excerpt, interview with Trevor NoahTrevor Noah Is Still…
I In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which…
Sounds mundane doesn’t it? Monday is the first day of the “work week.” Taken literally the “work week” is a hallmark of middle class. If one is not fortunate to have sufficient shelter, food, and good health — there is no respite from work. That has always been the case. Also, if one is…
That which is earlier with regard to its rise into dominance becomes manifest to us men only later. That which is primally early shows itself only ultimately to men. Therefore, in the realm of thinking, a painstaking effort to think through still more primally what was primally thought is not the absurd wish to…
