Mid afternoon Thursday and I hope to find precise words to describe my latest thoughts about morality. Humans are inordinately concerned with morality. We are the most complicated of all mammals. Wolves, otters, and elephants have a species appropriate manner of associating. A wolf learns to recognize the alpha, to give that male “leader”…
Wednesday comes as another “bonus” day. To be alive, in order to self-reflect is a miracle, an improbable event. As the years click by, I attempt to assess the way I have come, to reflect upon those I have known and how circumstances have constrained us, and do so even now. Many have been…
After returning to home-base in the Mid-West I now am able to consider the weekend that we spent in Louisville, Kentucky. Our family has visited Louisville a number of times to be with old friends who reside there. Also, we support the recognition of the LGBTQ+ community for Pride month in June. Louisville features…
Our family is in Louisville Ky for a long weekend. We have memories of Louisville, since our youngest daughter attended college at a Kentucky school, and resided for a few years in Louisville. Louisville is a medium sized city on the southern side of the Ohio river. Historically Kentucky is a border state, divided…
Today I attended a Memorial Day event at a unincorporated farming community. I understand the town (a cross-roads) has less than 500 residents. However a very important occasion for the community is a service of remembrance for veterans that went to war and did not return to the place of their birth. Many are…
I dreamed. I saw this on the cusp of waking today. An old friend and I raced together on the street. We had the greatest of fun, pure joy on account of the competition, the sensation, the rush of being “in the game.” To disclose the truth of who won, who lost, – I…
Another warmer day! Mid May and the promise of springtime is finding fulfillment. There is no certainty of a gradual transition to balmy days. The swings of heat and cold have been extreme in the past. You cannot count on mild weather, and the body does not “turn on a dime” to adapt to…
Saturday stands to be one more glorious dawning of spring. I, however am beset with a head cold. I give credit to Fortune for smiling upon me as the medication enabled me to sleep through the night. Discomfort notwithstanding I am eager to experience what the day holds. We viewed an outstanding film last…
Saturday morning. My gaze is drawn to the window, to sunlight that streams into the room. The blue sky beckons me, thin gray clouds scuttling southward, drawing away from the dim glow of this screen (a necessary tool). Desire. What is desire? Desire is inclination for movement, for pleasure of bodily movement, the wind…
A man of Zheng, called Huan, studied his books in a place called Quishi. In three years he became a Confucian scholar, bringing benefits to the three classes of his family relations as the yellow river extends its beneficial influence for nine li. He encouraged his younger brother to study the doctrines of Mo,…
