December 31st of 2021. No regrets or sadness to see 2021 recede into the past. Do not all events end up in “the past?” Surely we do not mean a closet, located somewhere we do not know, a frozen storage locker for everything with a locked door. I read once that the past, or…
Is here a designation for the week between Christmas day and New Year’s day? This interregnum I choose to call “the in between time.” I know that is awkward. Perhaps a more apt phrase will come to mind? After all that is how the mind works. The world is arranged/created according to what one…
LUKE 2 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. 2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. 4 And Joseph also went…
[this] semblance of redemption.If I possess this kind of wealth, I have the illusionof omnipotence and immortality.Wealth [Vermogen] What a beautiful word.Infinite wealth means infinite capacity;finitude fades away. What is salvation?This illusion is surely enough.There is a very theological dimension to it,and that dimension has nothing to do withmaterial greed. There are many shades…
Thursday is overcast, gray. The wind is gusting, a gentle breeze by comparison to the 60 mph winds of last night. December, tornado season? Mayfield, Kentucky. It appears that a giant blender descended from the sky, churning to rubble neighborhoods and buildings… The candle factory, ranked as Graves County’s third-largest private employer, is gone. …
There’s no“reset button” for civilization,and no viable planfor transforming global infrastructure,agriculture, and energy networksin the next ten to twenty years.And while smart, dedicated, and thoughtful peoplefumble with political machinery that doesn’t work,such as carbon-pricing markets,protests and the United Nations,all of us in the Global Northgo about our business,driving, flying, leaving lights on,running heaters and…
Brain fog this morning. My mind felt on the edge of malfunction, like a slowing old computer hard-drive memory disc. I entered Starbucks without wearing a mask. Fortunately a spare mask was in my computer bag. I remind myself to “settle down,” as if a parent were instructing a small child. Aided by the…
Those lyric lines filled the atmosphere of the Starbucks patron seating area. Under present conditions such language seems to be the apex of irony. On a two hour zoom call yesterday President Biden is reported to have ‘warned’ Putin of Russia that if he attacks Ukraine, he will be sorry… And so goes the…
Yesterday evening I was guest at a birthday celebration for our grandson. Family members gathered to express our joy on the occasion of his turning 7 years old. The event was glorious. Of course gifts were given, enough toys to afford hours of pleasure and learning. Thoughtful aunts gave him clothes too. Our family…
Transparency. Sounds innocuous enough, even desirable. Who does not wish to have daily life smoothed out, obstacles and bottle necks which make realizing our objectives, especially those involved in getting what we need from relationships, — removed? Transparency is a good idea is it not? Transparency is a watchword, a conceptual key to the…
