In the parking lot of Mercy Hospital, and inside of the building four people were killed yesterday. Yesterday twelve people were killed in a California country music bar. The slaughter continues in our armed-up society. Wouldn’t think of giving up our guns. In fact we have the right to carry them around with us…
On Receiving the First News of the War by Issac Rosenberg Snow is a strange white word; No ice or frost Has asked of bud or bird For Winter’s cost. Yet ice and frost and snow From earth to sky This Summer land doth know; No man knows why. In all men’s hearts it…
I was a sophomore in high school. That winter a neighborhood acquaintance, James House, who was perhaps a year older than I, turned up driving a new 1965 2+2 mustang. The car was a fastback, dark blue with a broad double white racing strip from bumper to bumper. The motor was a 289 cubic…
I received email messages from two friends this morning. They registered a complaint to a statement which I made yesterday. I criticized Capitalism as practiced by Big Pharma as being predatory, pitiless. I am an insulin dependent diabetic. Not only is the cost of insulin very expensive, the pricing of many prescription medications has…
The last few hours were eventful with travel, rental car return, receipt of boarding pass, TSA check in, and then boarding for the two hour flight to Chicago. Nothing outside of normal expectations. That is how life sometimes is, except when it isn’t. I am sad for my sister two years younger than I. …
Based on fossils and archeological artifacts from around the world, modern humans have existed for about 200,000 years; but the roots of civilization only go back 20,000 years, to when we first began planting grain and building walls. These dates slide back and forth on history’s timeline depending on the viewpoint, but practically all…
THE POEM OF ONE WORLD This morning the beautiful white heron was floating along above the water and then into the sky of this the one world we all belong to where everything sooner or later is a part of everything else which thought made me feel for a little while quite beautiful myself….
I read that flowers are the earth’s laughter. Flowers cause me to smile, such as when I attend to a joke or a good pun. I visited the zinnia garden to view the blossoms for the last time. Today the temperature is to be in the 70s and then the drop-off comes into the…
Someone To Watch Over Me fills the background here, a languid voice. Perhaps it is Ella Fitzgerald. I hear the piano notes with the singular melody caressing the patrons, myself included, here at Starbucks. This is a morning when I wish that I could talk with my mother. I can only imagine her presence,…
We require just a little order to protect us from chaos. Nothing is more distressing than a thought that escapes itself, than ideas that fly off, that disappear hardly formed, already eroded by forgetfulness or precipitated into others that we no longer master. These are infinite variabilities, the appearing of which coincide. They are…
