Thinkers
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“What’ya doin?”
“What’ya doin?” “I’m on Facebook.” “Sure you want to be doin’ that? You’ve been staring at your laptop for a couple hours.” “My life is being eaten up with this crap.” “Thoreau said, ‘Our inventions are…but improved means to an unimproved end.’ “I would like that, ‘improved means to an unimproved end’ if it didn’t Continue reading
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Writing, Photography and Bliss
Joseph Campbell famously stated, “Follow your bliss.” It is a luxury, you say? No, if you want to be alive it’s a necessity. Go do what you do. Listen for the drum beat, follow it. Go. Do it. Continue reading
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Truth?
“Ye shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.” “I have never believed in the power of truth in itself.” Quote number one, a first-century desert prophet. Number two, a twentieth-century French philosopher. Both quotes were directed to a people subjugated, living in an occupied country, itching for insurrection. (The second quote Continue reading
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A Call From the Fog
We’ve had a couple days of snow. And more falling. Maggie and I were, as always, on the Eastern Prom this morning, post-holing our way along (why did I give away my snowshoes?) and I heard the call of the fog horn from the bay. The sound rolled in from the South. I thought perhaps Continue reading
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A Life in Terms of Fiction
The notion interests me that the ancient Greeks judged their philosophers by their lives, as well as their intellectual contribution. Kierkegaard noted that Socrate’s “whole life was [a] personal preoccupation with himself…” Likewise, Rembrandt made more than ninety self-portraits, far more than any other artist. One art historian, Manuel Gasser, wrote that “Over the years, Continue reading
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House a’fire
I long for verbs, active verbs. Continue reading
...the house I live in... 