The sky is gray, overcast as if a bowl of depressive disorder had been placed over us by the gods. It seems very quiet outside with little traffic along Western Avenue. Sunday morning is not typically this silent. But these are the days of pandemic, of worsening spread of the coronavirus. I cannot say…
I met with a friend yesterday afternoon. To meet with someone across a table is an extraordinary privilege in these days of the spread of covid-19. Typically exchanges of any kind that are conducted indoors take place on video screens. Extreme caution is justified as the virus often is debilitating and there is always…
There are times when “reality” is just too much. Yesterday I felt as if I had reached such a time. I must turn away from thinking about “the mad king” who tightens his grasp upon power. He wants nothing more than to negate the outcome of the election of several weeks ago. All the…
I read the email received from an old friend this morning, expressing sadness over having to cancel plans to visit family in Alaska. The pandemics spread accelerates around us, now we receive word of acquaintances who are hospitalized. The email had news of a mutual friend who was admitted to the ER last night…
The world is vast and beyond definition. Anything that can be defined can be controlled. There is much in experience that is wild, idiosyncratic, a patient contradiction to the mind. Yet, there it is, undefined, a surd. I think of my day to day responsibility to work with my grand daughter to learn her…
Strangely, all of what you do depends on who you think you are. Just who do you think you are anyway? You are everyone who ever was and everyone who ever will be. Decisions that you make in what we call this present – this here and now – will validate (or invalidate) everything…
Today is another warm fall day, a good time to be out of doors. As with most of the country I watched the speech last night of Vice President Joe Biden, with Senator Kamala Harris acknowledge having won the election. It was a good speech, one that Biden after a lifetime of public service…
Organisms soldier on unwittingly. The difference between how things seem and how things really are is just as fatal a gap for them as it can be for us, but they are largely oblivious to it. The recognition of the difference between appearance and reality is a human discovery. False belief=getting it wrong. Animals…
The problem with lying is that an individual, or even whole societies forget how to live. One becomes entangled in one’s own misshapen world, the mind-managed world, the one we seek to control, that is slipping out of our grasp. One seems deranged, existentially unhinged as the lies grow in number and scale, the…
The words that I just typed into the header caused a chill as I read them trailing the cursor. I knew on Saturday morning that Sean Connery had passed by means of my cell news feed which is almost an instant conduit of information about events. The next day, scanning the New York Times…
