Yesterday was an improvisational exercise in child care. We have committed to responsibility to care for two of the grandchildren for one day of the week. This means taking them to preschool, and picking them up several hours later, having lunch with them, and then being on hand for a mid-afternoon nap. Their parents…
This post was written by a good friend. It is offered here as a succinct description of the divide that exists between Americans. The lesson that we are at taught over and over and over again (and yet we never seem to retain) is that the supporters of Donald Trump will find a way…
I awakened at 5AM. I dressed and arrived here at Starbucks. I watched a large bright white moon to the west while I drove. It’s five degrees farenheit outside. Two stars, one large and the other more faint hang in the east against the inky black sky. It is 6:30AM now and the big…
It is Wednesday, the day after the Presidents televised speech to the nation. Such televised speeches usually signal circumstances of extraordinary, even dire import. This was simply the next stratagem to get a wall built along the border between our country and Mexico. The cost would be in excess of five billion dollars. Why…
The day after voting day, November 7, I have a sense of hope, some satisfaction that the Republican Governors of my state of Illinois, and that of the state to our north, Wisconsin have been replaced by Democratic governors. I do not enjoy partisan politics, as the process has devolved to that of verbal,…
Friday, yesterday was our first day in the area. We just wandered around. The peninsula of Door County is composed of a chain of small towns linked by Route 42 and Route 57 which makes the area easy to drive in about an hour. A few of the towns are Sister Bay, Ephriam, Fish…
I received a sardonic email from a friend this morning. The writer observed that “the sun is hot, ice cubes are actually made of water, and blueberries tend to be blue.” Such observations of the nature of reality, until recently uncontroversial, agreed upon without further ado as “common” by everybody except maybe those under…
A machine for seeing, a machine for hearing, and a machine for thinking…. very shortly to come with the boom in all things digital and the programmed abandonment of the analogue. How will the silence of the infinite spaces of art subsist? We are all seated in Plato’s cave, which has become the Sybil’s…
In my scheme of the German state, there will be no room for the alien, no use for the wastrel, for the usurer or speculator, or anyone incapable of productive work. — Adolf Hitler, Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, 1923 I came upon this quote yesterday. The words froze my mind. These are the…
The dawn breaks the darkness of night and the sky glows. I know that in time dawn will break within me today. I am in a dark mood. I’ve been thinking of the killing of the Washington Post journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. Thinking that he was safe in Istanbul he walked into the Saudi consulate…
