Stand and fight ! or accede to the hard edges of this world: post industrial, connected, regimented — that we have made. Those are the thoughts that rise to contemplation. I found a port in the storm, somewhere that is familiar, where mind and body do not lapse into a pity party. It has…
Long Guns By Carl Sandburg Then came Oscar, the time of the guns, And there was no land for a man, no land for a country, Unless guns sprang up And spoke their language. The how of running the world was all in guns. The law of a God keeping sea and land apart,…
Friday, the last day of my work week. Beginning to mentally prepare for a road trip to the west coast, driving back with stops along the way. I believe the final stop is to be New York City and then return to Chicago. Hopeful of visiting Gettysburg along the way home. Some pictures of…
Without dispute mechanization (science/technology) has developed the means of satisfying real needs, but we reproach it with having too strongly encouraged, artificial ones, with having fostered luxury, with having favored the towns to the detriment of the countryside, lastly with having widened the gap and revolutionized the relationship between employer and employed, between capital…
Without being exactly in danger of starving to death, people consider that life is not worth living if they cannot have comforts, pleasures, luxuries; the national industry is considered insufficient if it provides for a bare existence, if it does not provide affluence; a country considers itself incomplete if it has not good ports,…
Upon recollection of my childhood the most cherished memories were the many times I explored the environment surrounding my house and the yard where I grew up. The desire to see, to hear, to touch one’s surroundings first hand, to know one’s own country is natural. Whenever I visit my hometown, the neighborhood where…
Like Linus, who has the football snatched from his well aimed, and enthusiastic kick, by Lucy — could it be that all we have heard, have had represented to us is a grand hoax? The motivation to make the world a better place by reducing my carbon footprint, by the installation of the roof…
The photo was captured by a friend. On my first look at the image I felt that something unspeakable and primeval had been captured on the cameras sensor, and by the collection of forms in the print. The photo taken on September 11 at twilight, shows a passing cloud wall, just after a downpour. …
The great obstacle to mysticism transforming humanity is the same which prevented the creation of a divine humanity. Man has to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow; in other words, humanity is an animal species, and, as such, subject to the law which governs the animal world and condemns the living…
On Sunday I was invited to a event at the Tau Center in Wheaton, a presentation on “everyday mysticism.” Being new to the area, I am curious to make new acquaintances, and the topic does interest me. Mystical experience is not esoteric, rare, something reserved for the psychologically unbalanced. Seems to me that mystical…
