Summerfest in Milwaukee is the best music festival that I’ve attended. Music and Nature are our reliable sources for life and renewal. Summerfest on the Milwaukee lakefront is the apotheosis of devotion for those of us who love music, who find in music the rhythm of life itself. I am informed that this is the…
I seldom travel into Chicago. As years have passed, I have less reason to visit the city. In the past we’d go frequently to experience the sights, the galleries along Superior, the sensation of the Mag Mile, and the festivals at Grant Park. For some of those years Laura worked in the city. Chicago…
Heard this tune played on the radio yesterday, I’ve heard it many times before. This time it rocked me, “knocked me out”. That’s an expression of the impact of a tune and lyric on my sense of space and time. Music can do that. It’s a matter of serendipity of timing: the right time…
The day before yesterday it rained hard, really hard. In our neighborhood over two inches fell within an hour, In the backyard, the green grass appeared faint and then disappeared under the surface of brown water. At the side of our house, a creek flowed, threatening to become a river. Water covering our and…
Social solidarity is not an ethical or ideological value: It depends on the continuousness of the relation between individuals in time and in space. The material foundation of solidarity is the perception of the continuation of the body in the body, and the immediate understanding of my interest and your interest. —Franco “Bifo” Berardi…
I am sure that you’ve had one. Awaking with the agenda of a new day on your mind, and just feeling out of sorts, like there is a “disturbance in the force” of your world. That is how it was for me this morning as I found a gap in traffic on Midlothian road. …
Enterprises are no longer linked to a territory and the work process is no longer based on a community of workers, living together in a factory day after day, but instead takes the form of an ever-changing recombination of time fragments connected in the global network. Cognitive workers do not meet in the same…
Park on Park is the name of the Mundelein car show that is held on the 2nd Wednesday evening of the summer months. Street rods, collectible cars of all descriptions are parked on and around Park Avenue for the admiration of gear heads like myself. As I grow older with every visit to a…
Can you think of anything more yummy than a bowl of cherries? Maybe it has been a very long time since you’ve tasted fresh cherries in springtime. When we become adult we tend not to indulge ourselves in such ordinary, and natural experiences of joy. Our minds are seduced by things more abstract, and…
I confess to being a fan of Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen is the Homer of my generation. I make the assertion without apology. At the Tony Awards televised live on CBS from Radio City Music Hall Springsteen delivered an abbreviated rendition of his song My Hometown which was prefaced by a moving soliloquy remembering Freehold…
