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…
Thus we shall never experience our relationship to the essence of technology so long as we merely represent and pursue the technological, put up with it, or evade it. Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst…
Fall has come gently, with a hint of frost in late October. The trees are well into shedding their leaves. I walked around the backyard holding my camera. I wanted photographs to help me remember this day. Today is ten days out from the election. Would I remember this day as one of…
Walking a few blocks from the house after nightfall, we came upon the ‘pirate ship’ that we’d heard of. This one was in celebration of Halloween. Nevertheless the creators had a point of irony. The ship was christened USS Covid. Every ship has a captain, and a crew. I captured some photos of the…
