Just yesterday Laura and I accepted an invitation to help paint a mural which is to be on permanent display on Batavia’s Peace Bridge which spans the Fox River. The park district representative with responsibility for the project mentioned that the mural is expected to last for 20 years or more of display season…
v. 77 The Way of Heavenis like a bow bent to shoot:its top end is brought down,its lower end raised up.It brings the high down,lifts the low,takes from those who have,gives to those who have not. Such is the Way of Heaven,taking from people who have,giving to people who have not. …
Our family is in Louisville Ky for a long weekend. We have memories of Louisville, since our youngest daughter attended college at a Kentucky school, and resided for a few years in Louisville. Louisville is a medium sized city on the southern side of the Ohio river. Historically Kentucky is a border state, divided…
…we understand our situationas one of high tragedy,alone in a silent universe,without intrinsic meaning,condemned to create value. But at a later moment, the same doctrine, by its own inherent bent,yields a flattened world,in which there aren’t very meaningful choicesbecause there aren’t any crucial issues. The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor, The Slide to…
Saturday morning is gray with on and off light rain falling. Starbucks has been quiet. It is Saturday after all. At present a few people stand patiently by the counter until their internet app orders are completed. It is a few minutes until 8 o’clock and families will shortly come by. Today the Batavia…
Rob Brezsny is a fine writer. I subscribe to his blog as a vote in favor of excellence, also to endorse his message of self-cultivation. We journey together. I touched on the May 4 Met Gala in a past post. Rob expanded upon my thoughts with eloquence. I will pass on his words to…
Monday at 9AM. In a few minutes I’ll depart Starbucks for home. Waking later today (continuing to battle this congestion) nonetheless a cup of coffee energizes body and spirit for another day. I am not into game playing. I’ve cared little about board games, card games, etc.. Certainly there are reasons for my diffidence…
It is camera lucidathat we should say(such was the name of that apparatus,anterior to Photography,which permitted drawing an object through a prism,one eye on the model, the other on the paper);for, from the eye’s viewpoint, “the essence of the imageis to be altogether outside,without intimacy,and yetmore inaccessible and mysteriousthan the thought of the innermost…
The morning, Saturday features frost. After all May 2nd is early enough; that rotation of the earth’s axis inclining the northern hemispheres toward light and heat is not enough to dispel the condensation to freezing of water, frost. Frost will come and go for a week or so. After which time vegetables will be…
History is hysterical: it is constituted only if we consider it, only if we look at it— and in order to look at it, we must be excluded from it. As a living soul, I am the very contrary of History, I am what belies it, destroys it for the sake of my own…
