Those who know me well, have no need to ask me which of the candidates for president that I favor. I’ve voted already,–the deed is done. Nothing more is left for me to do but wait. The reason for my choice is singular, simple. Here is a paragraph from Letter no. 7 from Rainer…
Only fools imagine that freedom means getting what one happens to desire. Real freedom begins with obedience to a higher influence—a higher, finer energy within oneself. What is higher in yourself? That way of thinking about the question is the beginning of the answer—because it involves a real idea which has been handed down…
…..if it worries and torments you to think of your childhood, and of that simplicity and quiet, because you cannot believe any more in God.…then what justifies you in missing him, who never was? Why do you not think of him as the coming one, imminent from all eternity, the future one, the final…
I am a North Carolinian, who immigrated to Chicago and adapted to life in one of the world’s great cities. Yet, the South has a place in my heart. Every visit to Louisville, Kentucky feels like home coming. Louisville is located on the Ohio River, a trade route since the West was settled in…
The road from Chicago to Louisville can seem longer than the five and a half hour drive the journey is supposed to take. Especially if you happen to run into a time-killing-slow-crawl traffic jam in the Chicago metro area. We’d been on the road for a while and were just past Indianapolis. Our joints…
Thursday evening is the regular meeting of the Baraboo Philosophy Discussion Group held at the Log Cabin Cafe. Here one of the participants expresses an opinion on Plato’s Parmenides. Okay, okay –the Discussion Group exists only in my imagination. The Log Cabin Restaurant in Baraboo Wisconsin is “real” though. The establishment is exceptional on…
Went for a walk on Sunday Oct 9th about 3PM in the afternoon. The wind was rustling the tall pines. I stood on the narrow spit of sand at the edge of the lake. The air was cool, giving hint of frost after sunset. A breeze lapped the lake surface; creating a big plate…
What we see comes from that which is not apparent. This statement is axiomatic for us, becoming embedded in the DNA of our culture since the rise of science as a basis for knowledge. Did it all began when Galileo pointed his 10x homemade refracting telescope at the moon, and discovered, saw with his…
We live in technological temporality. Duration and material support replaced— by individual retinal and auditory instants. —- Sensible appearances changed into so many instances, mere specters of a perspective. Perspective reality is about to disappear —- Post-reality Paul Virilio Lost Dimension, published 1984
Emanating from a cathedral the center of Rome, a line of ten thousand people stretches radially outward, like the hand of a giant clock, out to the edge of the city, and beyond. Yet these patient pilgrims are directed inward, not out. They are waiting their turn to enter the Temple of Time. They…
