Naturally you will ask, “What position are you hoping to fill? What are the qualifications?” My answer: I hope to interview candidates for the position of a “god.” That’s right we have an opening for a qualified deity. Similar to the CEO of a corporation, we need a symbol, a totem upon which we…
I’ve always enjoyed running. As a kid if I could run somewhere rather than walk, I would run. Around my 40th year, I began running every day, which served my general health, and “the kid in me” felt the old enjoyment. It has been a few years since the daily habit of running, and…
Many things on my mind this morning. We viewed the film Harriet last night. It is the story of Harriet Tubman, escaped slave from a Maryland slaveholder, becoming a female “Moses” returning to the area of her former captivity to lead family members and others to freedom. As a former Southerner I was rocked…
Last night we viewed The Joker, a movie starring Joaquin Phoenix. Perhaps you’ve seen it already. The movie is a grinding exposé of an individual’s destruction, along with the society upon which he depends (New York city), as consequence of institutional cruelty, exploitation for profit and amusement, as well as a litany of petty…
Sometimes you know what is going to happen, — and yet seeing for one’s self is a shocking revelation. This video shot in Harrison, Ark. by Rob Bliss was mentioned in the NYT Thursday edition of The Morning update. I am not a consumer of Youtube videos as a general rule. Viewing takes time…
Yesterday was blazing hot. The sun felt like you were too close to that charcoal grill. Yet my wife, the disciplined person that she is, prepared to embark on a lengthy walk in the neighborhood. I offered to go along, and she said Ok. She is serious about walking as a fitness regimen, while…
The world, meaning the wider, invisible context of my life, present in mind’s awareness is increasingly given over to chaos. It has not always been this way. There have been interludes of peace, of normality, when the rivers tranquil flow transported commerce, and ordinary ‘gossipy news’ that was a standard mix of fact and…
The fifties were a real high spot in the US…and you can feel the nostalgia for those years,for the ecstasy of power, when power held power.In the seventies power was still there,but the spell was broken.That was orgy time(war, sex, Manson, Woodstock).Today the orgy is over.The US, like everyone else,now has to face up…
How to say it. There is so much at stake , much more than we can know. We are on the cusp, the beginning days of a second surge in deaths from the coronavirus. California, a populous state that opened prematurely, along with states in the west and south whose governors owe fealty to…
This morning I read part of a story in the NYT of a grandmother on the way to the hospital, dying in the arms of her grand daughter after receiving her diagnosis of covid-19. This was a Florida story illustrating the difficulties of testing, and the consequences of back up of lab results, in…
