I’ve always enjoyed running. As a kid if I could run somewhere rather than walk, I would run. Around my 40th year, I began running every day, which served my general health, and “the kid in me” felt the old enjoyment. It has been a few years since the daily habit of running, and…
Today is Sunday. My memory of yesterday is almost featureless. I recognize that is the aftermath of low blood sugar. Diabetics are aware of the condition. The remedy is easy under normal circumstances. Just consume something, fruit, a cookie, anything with sugar. I mention this to highlight how organic our sense of time is,…
Yesterday featured an email exchange with a friend which ended in agreement “to disagree.” The recipient of my email resisted my criticism of Evangelical’s support of President Donald J. Trump. Another mutual friend, copied on our exchange, commented that the crux of the dissension appeared to be my opponents will to defend the concept…
Another morning dawns in splendor. Summer days are a gift, Natures welcome to all living things. I anthropomorphize of course. With our ancestors it just seems right and proper to give the world as presented to our senseS the label, “Nature.” It’s our term for the surrounding life-sustaining-matrix of sky, water, earth, vegetation and…
No ‘new’ big issue on my mind today,– just the usual ones. On Monday, Trump tweeted a photo of himself wearing a mask with a presidential seal, writing, “Many people say that it is Patriotic to wear a face mask when you can’t socially distance.”* CNN reported that the president’s falling poll numbers likely…
SPECTACULAR ORGY (FREEDOM AMERICAN STYLE) But this is precisely the point:the high point of liberation, it’s logical outcome,is to be found in the spectacular orgy, speed, the instantaneity of change, generalized eccentricity. Politics frees itself in the spectacle,in the all-out advertising effect;sexuality frees itself in all its anomalies,and perversions; mores, customs, the body, and…
Americans believe in facts,but not in facticity.They do not know that factsare factitious*, as their name suggests.It is this belief in facts,in the total credibility of what is done or seen,in this pragmatic evidence of things and an accompanying contempt for what may be called appearancesor the play of appearances –— a face does…
What if a butterfly thinks it is ugly? I participated in a Socrates’ Cafe discussion last night that entertained this question. The discussion was wide ranging, stimulating, satisfying. There were seven of us in attendance using Go-To-Meeting for the video mediated discussion. The question asks the reader to imagine oneself a butterfly. That alone…
After a session of wrestling with ideas, words, with the recalcitrant “world”, — my spirit seems to seize, overcome with the weary business of it all. Perhaps this is the hazard of a love of philosophy? David Hume once said. Since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, Nature herself suffices to that purpose,…
As usual I received the weekend update on my iphone news feed from the New York Times. I attempted to read over my bowl of cheerios. Interesting and concise as always, but I felt repulsed. My mind resisted following the cascade of deepening “troubles.” Another Black man is shot while fleeing police; demonstrations against…
