Huzzah for ignorance! The election of the individual which we now have in the White House has given me pause to think about the nature of ignorance. The President and his supporters represent ignorance piled high and deep. I note that ignorance and power entails an escalation of violence, a resort to violence in…
Bro, she said that you are the guy. She remembers the attempted rape when you were classmates in High School. Just before your rant, your home-boys said that she was persuasive. You said, “It ain’t me babe.” You did not say, “I just don’t remember.” And you resisted the FBI investigation until forced by…
Sunday? I awakened as if in a time warp. My conscious mind was oriented toward the coming day at the office. Waking at 6AM, I left the house for Starbucks with the dawn barely showing to the east. In my dissociation, a day was missing. I glanced at the newspaper rack at Starbucks and…
I awakened this morning to a lawyer-dream. Dreams come to consciousness as the mind ascends from deep sleep to the boundary of a waking state. Awareness traces the dreams/nightmares that represent our hopes and fears. This is the first lawyer-dream that I remember having. In the dream I visualized the face of my attorney,…
I’ve never had a natural interest in politics. Politics has always seemed like back-office stuff. You know the run-of-the-mill chores that have to be done to keep society functioning. A means must be found for making judgements, the adjustments necessary to keep commerce flowing, roads paved, teachers teaching, etc. I never found politics appealing…
Metastasis Metastasis is a pathogenic agent’s spread from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host’s body; it is typically spoken of as such spread by a cancerous tumor. The newly pathological sites, then, are metastases. Wikipedia *** This morning I felt numb, unable to write in the…
I am a native born North Carolinian. I’ve lived in Illinois for over forty years. When asked by anyone if I miss my home state, my answer usually is, “Its a good place to be from.” I grew up in North Carolina, and have fond memories of my teachers, of the pine tree forests…
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking. —Martin Heidegger Gary kindly shared a quote that prompted him to consider afresh his conception of Reason. The quotation had the same effect upon me. And as a bonus, Gary…
Like many who I have spoken with since the presidential election of November of 2016, I remain puzzled and dismayed that this ignorant bombastic individual received enough votes to win The White House for four years. The media rationale as well as “reasons” given by acquaintances for supporting Trump seem surreal, like ideas transmitted…
The day before yesterday it rained hard, really hard. In our neighborhood over two inches fell within an hour, In the backyard, the green grass appeared faint and then disappeared under the surface of brown water. At the side of our house, a creek flowed, threatening to become a river. Water covering our and…
