Waking this morning there is drizzle outside. Weather extremes are devastating, and I am thankful, the proportion of sunlit days and to those with rain seems normal here so far. Too much heat and vegetation becomes fuel. Too much water, and flooding is the consequence. Technology, or to say it more plainly, the application…
57 In every healthy society, three mutually conditioning physiological types separate out and gravitate in different directions, each one having its own hygiene, its own area of work, its own feelings of perfection and field of mastery. Nature, …, separates out predominantly spiritual people from people characterized by muscular and temperamental strength from a…
Sitting under the maple tree, in front of the old Kane County courthouse built in 1892, it has the architectural look and feel of another time. Many that constructed the edifice remembered the War Between the States, and likely served in the Grand Army of the Republic. That explains the impressive sculpture, imposing, on…
Is it not interesting how we label time? A week ago I made the mistake of assuming it was the Labor Day weekend — a week early. I arrived at that conclusion despite evidence to the contrary. The joke was on me. Emotionally, my internal reality began to anticipate the three day weekend,– and…
I have completed the preface of a book, AGNOTOLOGY [The Making & Unmaking of Ignorance], edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger. The subject is “ignorance,” the history and the function of ignorance. I was intrigued to select this book because there is current an outbreak of studied, deliberate ignorance, ignorance which is…
The Socrates Café group met last night. As with the protocol for the last few sessions, a Go-To-Meeting video link was used. There were six images of participants, in a double line across the screen. For many reasons a digital representation of a human being lacks the vibrancy of physical presence. We are at…
What to write this morning? There’s Trump-In-Kenosha, the topic of the President’s visit to a place where I have spent some time. I know very well that I’d write more, what I have said many times before about this man. I’d recount a litany of lies spoken, words which have nothing to do with…
Today is Sunday. I remember when growing up in North Carolina, Sunday was referred to as “the day of rest.” That meant that it was customary to spend a portion of the morning in attendance at a church “worship” service. Worship meant minimally that respect was shown for a shared tradition of stories and…
There is a lot more offered on the internet than one can consume, even when one attempts to be judicious. Recently I’ve listened to a podcast by Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU. I like his direct, no-nonsense manner of speaking. If you’d like to sample the podcast, The Professor G Show, CLICK…
54One should not let oneself be misled:great intellects are skeptics…..The vigor of mind,its freedom through strengthand superior strength, is proved by skepticism.Men of conviction simply do not come into considerationwhere the fundamentals of value and dis-valueare concerned. Convictions are prisons.They do not see far enough,they do not see things beneath them:but to be permitted…
