This morning I read part of a story in the NYT of a grandmother on the way to the hospital, dying in the arms of her grand daughter after receiving her diagnosis of covid-19. This was a Florida story illustrating the difficulties of testing, and the consequences of back up of lab results, in…
20 Stop thinking, and end your problems.What difference between yes and no?What difference between success and failure?Must you value what others value,avoid what others avoid?How ridiculous! Other people are excited,as though they were at a parade.I alone don’t care,I alone am expressionless,like an infant before it can smile. Other people have what they need;I…
15 The ancient Masters were profound and subtle. Their wisdom was unfathomable. There is no way to describe it; all we can describe is their appearance. They were careful as someone crossing an iced-over stream. Alert as a warrior in enemy territory. Courteous as a guest. Fluid as melting ice. Shapable as a block…
We are seeing at the moment that the pandemic can’t be fought with lies and disinformation, and neither can it be with hatred and agitation, Angelica Merkel told the European Parliament on Thursday, according to French news agency France24. “Fact-denying populism is being shown its limits,” she added. — Business Insider July 9, 2020
The first day of a long weekend by Lake Michigan. The sun slowly illuminates the forest that is quite close to the patio, the tall dark trees flame with green light. The curtain goes up on another day. Do you suppose that for the living vegetation, birds, mammals that live invisibly to us —…
In several hours we will leave Illinois for St. Joseph, Michigan. The drive will take us around the big lake, (Lake Michigan) to the resort town in the adjoining state. I love a road trip, the change of scene which travel affords. The geographical change enables a reboot of the psyche, to shift the…
What better way to spend a Sunday morning than exploring. We set out for the North Aurora Dam on the Fox River. Fishing poles in hand we hoped to find fish close to the bank just above the dam. We did our best. A feature of the morning was a session with a throw…
It is by an act of force,or coup de théâtre*geographical exile of the Founding Fathers of the seventeenth centuryadding itself to the voluntary exile of man within his own consciousness –that what in Europe had remained a critical and religious esotericismbecame transformed on the New Continent into a pragmatic exotercism.The whole foundation of America…
Money is fluid. Like grace, it is never yours. Coming to claim it is an offense against the divinity. Have you deserved this favor? Who are you and what are you going to do with it? You are suspected of wanting to put it to some use, an evil one no doubt, whereas money…
Another day in the reign of Trump. That seems the language suited to our condition. I wonder how similar our situation to that of the French man/woman-on-the-street under the reign of Louis the XIV? Louis XIV was concerned above all with the enhancement of his glory. He was called the Sun King (le…
