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…
I want to say more about the principle/law of special relativity. Special Relativity is analogous to gravity. For every living being on the earth, the pull toward the center always must be figured into one’s day to day living. When hiking in the Cascades in an Oregon forest, do not venture too close to…
Days end yesterday I read the poem Gerontion by T. S. Eliot. That was my second reading of the poem this week. I was taken by Eliot’s words. Scholarly analysts say Gerontion is one of his most enigmatic works. There is much enigma in all of Eliot’s poems. Yesterday afternoon I heard that Sergio…
It is Sunday morning. The state of Michigan is considered to be traditionally religious with many houses of worship. Grand Rapids is the location of Calvin College, a Christian Reformed liberal arts school founded in 1876. Zondervan publishing, one of the largest and well-respected Christian publishing houses is also in Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids…
Recently I was troubled by an email exchange with a friend. He supported the removal of children from parents seeking asylum at our southern border. I called it kidnapping, and insisted such acts were atrocities. He disagreed. His argument was that these parents were neer-do-wells intent on defrauding our government. Therefore they deserve to…
