I have signed up for a seminar course on May 22nd, so I am pressing forward to finish a book that will be central to the topic of discussion. Eric Fromm was referred to in the chapter entitled, Love as Praxis: Critical Theory and Pscyhoanalysis, which I am reading. I have not read Eric…
May 1st yesterday was the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Our daughter and her partner lived in Louisville for many years. The celebration of Derby week is part of their heritage as former residents of Louisville. Therefore our household gathered in the living room to enjoy the…
Jesus is not coming back! Is that statement ironic, troubling, laugh-out-loud funny, or simply nonsensical? It depends entirely upon the reader. What do you bring to those words arranged in syntax? What mental image forms, involuntarily? Do you experience a strong emotional response: relief, dread… The meaning is involuntary after all, the effect of…
My day began at 6AM. These are community yard sale days here in Batavia. I did what I could to assist with staging items in our driveway, preparing for the early-comers. The early birds are intent upon surveying as many places possible, looking for the odd item to be treasured, or something they need. …
Timing is everything, according to the saying. Timing, the right time, a propitious time, the “alignment of stars and planets,” is a key aspect of life. Perhaps it is everything. I cannot say. In the off chance there is a god, and he/she could see with exquisite clarity past, present, and future, — and…
From this Thursday morning’s New York Times: Biden plans to declare that the Ottoman killings of Armenian civilians during World War I were genocide. It could fray relations with Turkey, which rejects the designation. This up-welling of truthful, coherent speech has been long in coming. No other president has was able to overcome the…
Yesterday in Minneapolis a jury convicted officer Derek Chauvin of second degree murder (and of two other charges as well) in the killing of George Floyd this past May. The scene of gratuitous, lethal cruelty was filmed by a bystander. The conviction of a police officer is very, very rare. The New York Times…
The word, “breakout,” conveys the connotation of an extreme, threatening circumstance. The stakes are high. An attempt is made by force to breach the encirclement, to achieve freedom of movement. I simply want to write about our very first experience of eating-out, dining at a restaurant after receiving our second Moderna covid shot. This…
Today I was at the crossing point of an email conversation between two friends. It was as if I were standing on a curb before a cross walk at a busy intersection. Two vehicles approach at speed limit velocity, each at right angles to the other. Each driver is oblivious to the other, and…
Why wouldn’t there be as many real worlds as there are imaginary ones?Why would there be only one real world?Why such a mode of exception? In reality, the notion of a real world existing among all other possible worlds is unimaginable.It is unthinkable, except perhaps as a dangerous superstition. We must stay away from…
