I watched. The Patriots over the Rams 13 to 3, a defensive game, like watching a tableau of trench warfare, grinding on…. At last the Rams broke and the Patriots scored a touch down. This was the Patriots sixth Super Bowl win. Six rings,–what to do with them all? The game was the second…
We drove to Milwaukee, the traffic enveloped in a miasma of salt and soot laced snow-melt spray. The bone chilling sub-zero cold has passed. Our objective was the Fiserve Forum where we had tickets for a performance of Cirque du Soleil Crystal. Words cannot be easily found to describe the unfolding of figure skating,…
To be reverentially unexplored and pure or nonsensical bunkum of appeal, worshiped or derided, an oblique perspective on existence freed from customary egoistic vigilance taking leave of the “I.” Becoming a vagabond promiscuous thing to find ourselves loving, an intensity of enthusiasm, now distributed, erratically and generously to experience generosity, nobility of feeling, selflessness…
Defeated by the slow moving traffic on a inordinately chilled morning, I returned to home base. Reconsidering the day ahead, I had time for some emails and reading. I am eager to begin an essay by Heidegger, THE ORIGIN OF THE WORK OF ART. Here are some sentences from the first paragraph. On the…
Another bitter day. The cold stabs inadequately protected flesh like a stiletto. It’s a white death that is felt, something you know intuitively. I woke this morning with a shocking high blood glucose reading. Everything has a cause. I identified several possibilities, and changed my insulin pump setting. High blood sugar is another form…
Warming Arctic fuels polar vortex,—the end of our world. That is a headline which we will never see on the front page of the New York Times. Tell me that you have not thought of that possibility, the consequence of disruption of normal, seasonal weather patterns, such that commerce, agriculture, and social life…
Tuesday, the first of three days of bitter cold. With -3 degrees and a stiff breeze I changed my plans for the morning. On the road in the early morning sun, obliquely illuminating the snow covered fields, the drifts appeared as wind driven wavelets on a frozen lake. Perhaps an image of our lives,…
A blanket of snow, at least six inches covers everything. I imagine that this day could be recognized as a opportunity for the minimum, the most basic of chores, a day for rest and reflection. Not so for us who live in towns and suburbs. A snow fall presents an obstacle to be overcome,…
Certainly one does not put one’s beginnings over the horizon, in the rear view mirror of life. This Sunday morning I awakened early and made my way to Starbucks. Starbucks is the quintessential secular environment. Individuals or clusters of friends, and a few families sip coffee, enjoy a breakfast sandwich while concentrating their attention…
The bitter cold continues. Unaccountably I was not awakened by the alarm this morning. At least I have no memory of shutting the alarm off and returning to sleep. I customarily rise before sunup to begin my day. I enjoy a session of reading and writing to begin a day of activity. It seemed…
