Thinkers

May 11, 2010

My life has sprinted parallel to the advancement of silicon technology.

I only worry, not having gone to Walden and not knowing if I am practicing resignation or not, I will misstep and fumble awkwardly tripping into the/my future. Continue reading

Philosophy, Technology, The Examined Life, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers

Heidegger, Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kilby, Sartre, silicon chip

May 6, 2010

The Limit of Anything is not a Natural Place

…together, the writing and the life, they make something of which I am unsure–but I am the student of that something, trying to be more sure. Continue reading

Books, Reading, The Examined Life, Thinkers, Writers, Writing

Hemingway, Montaigne, Sartre, Socrates, The Examined Life, the personal essay, Writing

May 2, 2010

Persephone returns!

Spring – In ancient myth, Persephone is abducted by Hades and taken to the Underworld. (She was a babe.) Continue reading

Creativity, Literature, Nature, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers, Writers

Greek mythology, Hades, Persephone, Picasso, Spring, the Renaissance, The Romantics, the seasons

April 29, 2010

Thursday Grace Notes

“Life lived as art” — I love that. Continue reading

Books, Death, Philosophy, The Examined Life, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers, Wisdom

Alberti, Confucius, Isocrates, Jesus, Modernity, Muhammad, The Golden Rule, Wittgenstein

April 24, 2010

“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.” ~Albert Schweitzer

There is an extended scene towards the end of 25th Hour, the 2002 Spike Lee movie that captures my imagination. The Ed Norton character is reporting to prison in upstate New York, being driven there by his father, played by Brian Cox. In the scene, his father says, “Just say the word, say the word Continue reading

Family, Life, Philosophy, The Examined Life, Thinkers

Albert Schweitzer, Edward Norton, Eugene Smith, Existentialism, Montaigne, Sartre, Sisyphus, Spike Lee

April 21, 2010

“…a means of ignorning the spaces in between…”

Do you remember the Simon and Garfunkel tune, 59th St. Bridge Song–specifically the lyrics, Slow down you move too fast? Surely you do. A catchy tune. And the sentiment nice. We nod in agreement: Yes, we move too fast. Let’s slow down, smell the roses, or the coffee, whatever, savior the moment–nice little tag line Continue reading

Philosophy, The Examined Life, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers, Travel, Writers

Examined Life, flying, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Seth Stevenson, Simon and Garfunkel, Simon Critchley, Waldon Pond

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