Life goes on as it must. Patterns are established, habits ingrained, the inexorable impetus of cause and effect. Can I imagine our ancestors sense of dread at a time when they felt the gods were working against them? Has not science removed that burden? Hardly. I had a brief conversation with a friend and…
I am looking forward to attending a concert tomorrow evening, Friday, at the Lake County Fair. Infinity, a cover band I’ve enjoyed in the past, is scheduled to take the main stage at 9PM. Since I am a senior citizen now, Fair admission comes at a discount. To hear tunes made popular nationally in…
Falling in order to rise…… the destruction of received models and forms is necessary in order to clear a space for spontaneous thought to arise. From the cathedral of our own feelings, from the void of the blank canvas, then, comes the space for revelation. We are fragments of an unutterable whole. Meaning is…
The boundaries of causation always exceed the boundaries of consideration. –Wes Jackson Mystery, the unknown, our ignorance always will be with us, to be dealt with. The farther we extend the radius of knowledge, the larger becomes the circumference of mystery. There is, a boundary that may move somewhat, but can never be removed,…
How much is enough? The question arises often and in many forms. The time came for transition from employer based medical insurance coverage to Medicare. Transition has proven to be challenging, complex, with a fair amount of anxiety. After all who cannot be protective of physical health once the youthful stage of life has…
I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn’t frighten me. –Richard Feynman quoted from The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by…
We attended the Independence Day parade in Wheaton for the second year. Its an old fashioned “people’s parade” with many volunteer organizations, businesses, civic groups, churches, and of course government officials making up the procession. The event lasts for at least an hour. Main street Wheaton is a long, broad, straight road stretching for…
The sensualist cries out, “Stay a bit, my tongue has not concluded its encounter; wait a moment for my smile to widen.” If the sensualist could, he would stretch time like a length of elastic….. But experience is not simply a river you can’t step into twice (Heraclitus): it is composed of unrebreathable sighs;…
The Soil….is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care of it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life….
Early June and the Saturday morning holds promise of warming sun, growth for the vegetables lately placed in the ground. I sit here in the corner at Starbucks listening to the beat of easy jazz playing too loud over the PA. This rhythm is a human replication of the heart beat of nature that…
