A great body of water is compelling. When I was a kid family vacation involved spending a few days at Carolina Beach. The car trip to the seaside always involved mounting excitement the closer our destination. I gazed intently from the side window straining for a first glimpse of the ocean. That first…
I checked the map to learn that I am in Hagar Michigan, just a bit south of Benton Harbor. Shortly after arriving at our rental house we walked down the road, then through the woods, taking the wooden stairway down through the ravine to the beach of sand at the waters edge. Lake Michigan…
Each of us desired to be happy, once. As the years pass many give up the quest and the hope of happiness. Happiness, the contentment of well-being diminishes as time takes its toll. It’s not a matter of money. Financial resources while necessary to happiness are not sufficient. The most important aspects of happiness…
The year was 1965. I was a member of an Eagle Scout Troop sponsored by Monsanto. Our meetings typically were in the lab where our scoutmaster worked at the Monsanto Research Triangle facility. I’ve never forgotten the evening. I remember the whine of the power supply and capacitors powering up. Then we heard the…
Another Independence Day Parade on Main Street of Wheaton Illinois is a memory. These are a few of the photos that remind me of how diverse and unique is the American experience. The course of historical events has brought us to this point in time and place. So, join me curbside to view the…
….it gets worse with Christian philosophy. the positing of immanence remains pure philosophical instituting, but at the same time it is tolerated only in very small doses; it is strictly controlled and enframed by the demands of an emanative and, above all, creative transcendence. Putting their work and sometimes their lives at risk, all…
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…
