Some days ago in conversation with a friend here at Starbucks, Alex insisted that knowledge was possible without the symbolic representation of reason. I thought to myself, “What a radical thought.” I think of “knowledge” as what can be diagrammed, presented in the form 2+2=4, or encoded with words and grammar. On the other…
It was an orange 2022 Corvette. That’s me waving from the drivers side, ready for three laps around the race track. The C8 Z51 model Corvette makes 475 horsepower. The jaunty wave of the hand from the car toward my daughter taking the picture, was but a small part of the story. I have…
In a state of vertigo this morning, feeling my way along hoping the words come. Yesterday while concentrating to write an entry for another day, I discovered that a few weeks ago my aunt passed away. I was not aware she was ill. I visited with her a year ago in North Carolina. She…
This we know: Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. -Chief Seattle Four satisfying…
We arrived at the lake house a short walk from the east side of Lake Michigan. Annually we have a four to five day, all-family get together. The “big event” is the interest derived from being by the big lake. Weather, that is, the wind swept sky, the waves, and the shore itself which…
I am feeling déjà vu. The scene keeps repeating itself. Except in Highland Park, it appears that white people are grieving innocents struck down by gunfire. The story has headlined the evening news for days now. Not the “one and done” of such stories that keep happening on the west and south side…
I remember first using Kodachrome film. To hold a color print was a delight, an image that represented with remarkable fidelity the mental image achieved by the eye and the mind. Up until I owned the Agfa 35mm camera which took the Kodak color film, I was accustomed to a box camera, which I…
Tuesday morning after Independence Day 2022, is overcast with intermittent sunshine. Is today the beginning of a new week, or a continuation of the week that was, a week that seemed compressed into one day? I refer to the mass murder that occurred yesterday at the Highland Park Independence Day parade. A young man,…
My thesis I think is obvious. Our society, the American people are deeply divided about the meaning of “guns,” between the necessity of arming one’s self and those who hold a view of a society becoming more egalitarian, a community where instruments conceived to take human life are unimportant for the average citizen. I…
It is common knowledge that there’s a great divide in our society, and the meaning of guns is at the crux of the different realities that American’s inhabit. Each of us lives in the world that we and others have jointly fashioned, or put differently the mind organizes reality in terms of the relationships…
