It has been a while since visiting the Mississippi river town. It is close enough for a short road trip, a get-away from the day to day routine of home base. Everyone benefits from adventure. Travel brings different scenery, others whose way of life differs from our own. Who doesn’t desire to tell their…
The Beginning 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was…. There is always a beginning, at…
If I had to provide a definition, I would say that politics has to do with the relationship between a collectivity and the available and necessary resources, with the aim of employing such resources to increase the happiness of the collectivity -if we understand collectivity as the sum of its individual members, and happiness…
Millions of Americans are wrestling with the impossibility of a traditional middle-class existence. In homes across the country, kitchen tables are strewn with unpaid bills. Lights burn late into the night. The same calculations get performed again and again, over and over, through exhaustion and sometimes tears. Wages minus grocery receipts. Minus medical bills….
Yesterday was a mild, “feels like spring” day. Enjoying the sunlight, we took the Batavia River Walk for a stroll southward towards the dam by the old Challenge windmill factory. A visit to the dam is a reminder of the immense power of flowing water, moved by gravitational pull toward the Mississippi River ultimately…
Convinced of the wholly human origin of all that is human, a blind man eager to see who knows that the night has no end, he is still on the go. The rock is still rolling. I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds ones burden again. But Sisyphus teaches…
Adventurers only exist within the time of their own mortality. No heaven or hell, no memory or glory lie beyond the moment in which their bodies start rotting. The time of adventure only exists as a ‘time of now’….. Whatever we desire, we can only achieve within the narrow time of our biology. Before…
Good discussion last night. The topic was, is revolutionary. Revolutions are violent paradigm shifts, alternative ways of perception, and of self understanding. Political revolutions are almost never a “good” thing, as the river of blood that results, provokes a corresponding violent, bloody response. Revolutions of the intellect, on the other hand are desirable, a…
A long process of religious self-delusion has been necessary to pass from the myth of the birth of work as God’s punishment for the original sin, to the infamous slogan covering the entrance to Nazi concentration camps, ‘Work will set you free.’ A process which covers the distance between the origin of the French…
Wakening this morning, Tuesday, in a mental fog. I managed to stand erect, moving toward the kitchen, wondering how long until the thick malaise of mind would clear. Is this normal for a person my age, a diabetic of too many years…? What is normal? Is it the average, the median? There is no…
