Samhain Waxing Thanksgiving Moon Woollies at Stefan’s house tonight. Bill, Frank, Warren, Stefan, Scott, Tom, Mark, me. Paul was there for a bit before he left to have dinner with his daughter Clare. Topic tonight was what role a higher power plays in your life, if any. We wandered here and there, but came back […]
Read the rest of this entry »Oh, You’re So Pragmatic.
Summer Full Strawberry Moon “My experience is what I agree to attend to.” – William James Pragmatism and pragmatists are an original American (US) contribution to the history of Western philosophy. Since I can’t get my hands around it well, I’ll not try to explain it, though on its on my list. But. William James […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Self & The Other
Beltane Waxing Strawberry Moon Finally, some sun. That’s good for the bees, good for the veggies and good for the spirit. I collect articles on certain subjects: art, aesthetics, philosophy, political theory, modernism, individualism for instance. Over the last few months there has been an interesting increase in the number of articles I’ve found with […]
Read the rest of this entry »Leaving Denver
Winter Waxing Cold Moon The decompression has begun. My suitcase awaits only my dopp kit to be ready to go. A shower, final packing and I’ll be ready. Ready, that is, to drop off the rental car before noon then spend three hours at the Denver Airport before my 3:00 pm flight back to the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Hard Battles
Winter Waning Moon of Long Nights “Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato I have, over my life time, found this hard to remember, but oh so true. Even the admired, the successful, the beautiful, the quick and the bright have their doubts, their relationship problems, their perceptions of […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Judgment of the Universe
There are times when the judgment of the universe becomes inscrutable. At best. The complex interplay among our nature, our nurture and the actual facts muddies the whys of life. Always. It is no wonder that humans seek answers, we are pattern seekers, probers, wonderers, wanderers. Yet, there may be no answers. I know a […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Tragic Sense of Life
51 bar falls 29.82 4mph SSE dewpoint 28 Spring Waxing Gibbous Moon of Growing “To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.” – Miguel de Unamuno Unamuno has slipped from awareness, it seems, but this Spanish existentialist, poet and author speaks truth even when it is uneasy and unpleasant. Here’s […]
Read the rest of this entry »Making Room for New Work
34 bar steady 30.10 3mph NNE dewpoint 10 Spring Waning Gibbous Moon of Winds “Our power is in our ability to decide.” – R. Buckminster Fuller Since long ago college days, I have found primary life guidance from the existentalist perspective. The existentialists believed, as do I, that we are responsible for our actions […]
Read the rest of this entry »
Externally, We Swim In the Same Ocean, but…
Winter Waning Moon of the Cold Month “Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise his will — his personal responsibility.” – Albert Schweitzer Schweitzer was a favorite of both my mother and my father, his “reverence for life” must have rung loudly in the ear of the WWII […]
Read the rest of this entry »