Email from a friend expressing feelings of revulsion at political “leadership.” I felt his pain. Feelings are like the weather. The “weather” of feelings are the swirling impact of feeling upon feeling. Feelings come and go. Feelings pass for “news” in some sectors of the media. Feelings are not news. Feelings pass for “truth”…
This morning I turned on NPR. Still dark, it was early. Barely awake, I tuned to the beginning of an interview with one of Alabama’s Congressional Representatives. This is the followup of the Presidents visit to McAllen Texas yesterday. I could not listen to the interview with the man from Alabama. The sound of…
This morning according to the NPR newscast the President is to visit the border region between our country and Mexico. I visited that part of our country once, many years ago. Traveling from Chicago to San Francisco on the California Zephyr the train stopped for about twenty minutes somewhere in New Mexico. I marveled…
Not that I have lost any hope. All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die. I don’t know why we should expect it to. It seems fairly…
The automobile is emblematic of America. The Model T Ford created by Henry Ford, a “modern” means of transportation affordable by the working man/woman, and the interstate highway system built by the Eisenhower Administration have defined America. As a baby-boomer I learned to love cars while in high school. The most vivid memories retained…
Friday, yesterday began with frost on the windshield. After all it is still early January. The weather forecast for the day held promise of temperature in the 40s, with 50s expected today. This was delivered on the late evening news with much fanfare of graphical display and expression of animated glee by the attractive…
I was intrigued by these words from Heidegger. You will need to read carefully, and at least twice for his meaning to clarify for your mind. Written in the early years of the 20th century, the words are prescient to our condition a century into the future, the 21st century. By disavowing itself in…
The disclosedness of beings, which lets beings be, sets man free for his “freedom” by first offering to his choice something possible (a being) and by imposing on him something necessary (a being), human caprice does not then have freedom at its disposal. Man does not “possess” freedom as a property. At best, the…
Time goes slowly…. Today is the last day of 2018. Tomorrow technically will begin at 12:00 AM which will herald the begining of 2019. A few friends will come over for some genial conversation, a celebration of friendship, and of the passage of time. Will I remain awake until midnight? I doubt it. Those…
After a mild month, the last days of December are descending towards winter. Yesterday was the 29th, a cold, breezy day with light icy rain. Our family gathered at our oldest daughters home to remember our grand-daughter, baby Kai Ruby Lewis-King who was born one year ago on the 29th. She was still-born after…
