‘ I receive a weekly email newsletter from Professor Scott Galloway. Galloway is a professor in the New York University Stern School of Business. He is a podcast host, and entrepreneur. The professor is philosophically astute, able to see the “big picture.” For today I will excerpt some of Galloway’s words from his No…
THE SOIL…is the great connector of lives,the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by whichdisease passes into health, age into youth,death into life. Without proper care for it we can have nocommunity, because without proper carefor it we can have no life. — Wendell Berry
I have little to say this morning. That is as it should be. Life is replete with conflict, language games, reportage contending for the apex of one’s attention. Often, better that less or nothing be said, — silence is the condition for reflection, a quieting of awareness so that the dispersed energies of life…
Anything written by Nietzsche is approached with apprehension. By reputation Friedrich Nietzsche is a “bomb thrower,” a nihilist who is responsible for the death of God. On a ‘reputation scale’ from high to low, that would be on the low side. Unaccountably in my late 20s I read Nietzsche’s writing with an open mind, overcoming…
But tell me, my brethren, what the child can do, which even the lion could not do? Why hath the preying lion still to become a child? Innocence is the child, and forgetfulness, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a holy Yea. Aye, for the game of creating, my…
Last night the Socrates Café convened once again. The topic of the evening was “self-actualization” a term introduced into public discourse by the psychologist Abraham Maslow (1908-1970). Maslow presented a 5 step process, a journey starting from the basic need of food, water, shelter, etc, followed by a safe environment, progressing to the final…
Wednesday I picked up the latest issue of Adbusters Magazine at Barnes & Noble. It is a Canadian publication with a global range of contributors. The March/April issue is entitled, The New Left. The title succinctly describes the editorial point of view of the publication. The magazine uses graphic design to advantage, to clarify…
I dreamed last night. It was unusual in brevity, in technicolor and in dynamism. I was supervising the moving of a rather large, antique, turquoise finished wooden cabinet. The beautiful cabinet was suspended by a sling, and a stout steel cable. In my dream, something happened to the cable, the antique piece of furniture…
The most distant object that most folks can see with the unaided eye is also the closest major galaxy to our own Milky Way. Although the Andromeda Galaxy lies a mind-bending 2.5 million light-years from Earth, its trillion stars are enough to emit a strong glow across the vast reaches of space. Despite the wide gap, the…
A friend introduced me to The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame, published in 1908. It is a children’s story of the adventures of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger. After reading the short book I learned the story had been a favorite of my youngest daughter. Kenneth Grahame, a banker, served as the…
