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…
Every end is a beginning. Who does not look forward to the end of the work week? The last day of the usual, necessary tedium; and the beginning of a weekend–opportunity for relaxation and reflection. Sunday coming up will be Mother’s day, and I am lucky to remember my mother, and to select a…
Two days have passed, I continue to be shaken by the dismissal of James Comey, Director of the FBI. FBI directors are appointed for a 10 year term in order to be resistant to political influence. Comey’s agency has been investigating the scope of Russian interference in our November election, and the Trump campaign…
Tuesday morning, when I customarily compose the day’s post, I will be under the influence of anesthesia, Propofol most likely. I can attest that the drug produces a dreamless sleep. When the drug is administered, consciousness winks out. There is no sliver of fading, just light and then nothing. Waking is not unpleasant, as…
…this sluggish paradise. A human being protected from all normal and natural hardship simply is not alive. We inhabit insecurely a world which must of its intransitory nature be insecure. The tyranny of mindless technology. It is well to use the wheel. But it is fatal to be bound to it. We are trapped…
