HOW OFTEN! HOW UNEXPECTED! How may married men have some morning awakened to the fact that their young wife is dull, although she thinks quite the contrary! not to speak of those wives whose flesh is willing but whose intellect is weak! — aphorism 276 DANGER IN BEAUTY. This woman is beautiful and intelligent:…
Thanksgiving day. This day has become a tradition, since President Lincoln’s speech in 1863. Lincoln invoked God, suggesting that the “day of feasting” along with a collective attitude of thanksgiving might nudge the divinity to hasten a conclusion to the slaughter, destruction, and deprivation of the War Between the States. Check it out for…
The quoted segment explores the labyrinthine, puzzle-like nature of art, – whether poetry or theater, or music, or perhaps of painting or of sculpture. Imagine yourself in a gallery, or in an artist’s studio and you are surrounded by an array of paintings, or perhaps by sculpture. Each work is a portal into the…
Tuesday morning is clear and chilled. At last fall envelops us. Hot coffee tastes especially delicious. Having discovered a collection of quotations relative to Religion and Unbelief, again I ponder my own journey. I do not think I’ve exercised choice at any point in the matter of religion. Prior to my birth infinite circumstances…
Monday begins the procession to Thanksgiving day, Thursday of this week. Three and a half weeks hence we will celebrate Christmas day. it is impossible to avoid the insistence of (paid) purveyors of merriment, that this is the happiest time of the year. Thanksgiving and Christmas are both religious holidays, with a veneer of…
It is late November, a winter chill has arrived. The “wintery mix,” a covering of fine ice crystals and rain is a reminder that the tilt of the earth’s axis away from the sun means winter is sure. That is the truth. What is meant by winter can be counted upon, preparation ought to…
This passage personally resonates with me. In my working years as owner of a company, I knew day to day the discipline of assigning a value, in terms of what someone else would be willing to pay. Exchange value: dollars for service, the quid pro quo. Is this a fair assessment of what we’ve…
A feature of our time is media punditry. From MSNBC, to Fox, to Newsmax and unnumbered internet channels of influencers and opinion makers, to name just a few: Joe Rogan, Bill Maher, and Selena Gomez… The overarching horizon of communication companies is profit/loss capitalism. Competition is the rule and thus the appetite for content…
There is… a counterforce which continually reminds us that there is no exclusively moral-making morality, and that a morality which asserts itself to the exclusion of all other morality destroys too much sound strength and is too dearly bought by mankind. The non-conventional and deviating people, who are so often productive and inventive, must…
Nietzsche is interested in the ideal of the ancient Greeks, “all things in moderation.” The Greeks were as human as any 21st century homo sapien. Ideals serve as coordinates that we attempt to follow, albeit the inadequacy of our character, or skill, or resources. In contradistinction to the Greeks we Americans make no attempt…
