…the house I live in…

A journal of life pursued

Beethoven

February 25, 2012

Leaning in to wisdom.

I must climb down off this box of soap. Continue reading

Creativity, Literature, Nature, Philosophy, Photography, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers, Wisdom, Writing

Beethoven, Montaigne, standing on the shoulders of giants, Thatcher Cook, Thoreau
May 16, 2010

…the meaning of doing a thing seriously…

The influences of history, when we recognize and manifest them, cease to be past influences. They become present. Continue reading

Creativity, Literature, Photography, Thinkers, Writers, Writing

Beethoven, E.B. White, Eugene Smith, Guy Davenport, Hegel, Henry David Thoreau, history, Lee Friedlander, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Photography, Reading, Robert Frank, Tolstoy
April 1, 2010

“What I am, I am by myself.”

Do you ever ask yourself what is the best we have to offer? The “we” here is the species, homo sapiens. I will pass completely on the who or what to whom we offer (the verb implying such: O.E., ofrian, from L. offerre “to present, bestow, bring before”). Not bringing this before anybody/-thing but myself, Continue reading

Life, Thinkers, Travel

Bach, Beethoven, Buddha, Confucius, Ft. Wayne, Know Thyself, Mahler, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Socrates, Varanasi, Via Dolorsa

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