Thursday dawns with a hazy sky, hundreds of wildfires burn in the Canadian north. Since we all share a single planet New York City, the eastern seaboard of the United States is choked with unhealthy levels of smoke. For New York’s citizens it is unhealthy to be outside. Are we about to change our…
Returned from a wedding in Michigan. We received the invitation from a couple on my wife’s side of our family. No two weddings are alike. Two family groups are brought together in celebration of a beginning of life-together for two adults who have been recipients of parent’s devotion. The endeavor of parents to enable…
Do we pray anymore? Piety is obsolete in a secular society. Not entirely of course. Always there are remote places that have yet to hear the news. News takes time. “God is dead,” Nietzsche proclaimed as in the “Gay Science” published 1882. A way of life predicated upon reliance upon the technology of the…
Another satisfying morning at Starbucks. Often do I fail to notice how good life can be, just how lucky (another way of putting it) to be seated here with a cup of coffee in hand, conversing with a friend? Friendship is inestimable, a practice of presence, the exchange of words which reciprocally enlighten… The…
Joliet is a town, a small river town west of Chicago. In 1673, Louis Jolliet, along with Father Jacques Marquette, paddled up the Des Plaines River. The name reminds one of the history, what I mean is the indigenous people who once lived here, the Illinois native Americans, and the European French explorer for…
You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price…
Didn’t post yesterday. Rare circumstances on occasion are more important than having something to say. Failing to add more words here causes no tremor in the fabric of the cosmos… The challenge of finding some good words to describe an emotional response, or to express an idea received from a writer more worthy than…
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll published in 1865 has been overlooked. I hope to “catch up” with this widely recognized tale soon. Amazon offered a paperback copy for $2.95 and I expect the book to arrive sometime Friday. Time and space distortion is a feature of the story as I am given…
No post was attempted yesterday. At the time I would be writing I was being prepared for anesthesia, several hours of sleep, while a Cardiac Electrophysiology specialist treated a circuit malfunction of my heart that was causing an irregular heartbeat. The method used was indicative of a benefit of knowledge. For human beings knowledge…
Saturday evening, upon a friend’s recommendation we dined at Villa Verone in Geneva. The occasion for us was to celebrate fifty two years of partnership, a marriage which began in Japan. The year was 1970 and we both were 21 years old. We traveled to the city hall in our section of Tokyo to…
