Month: April 2012
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Sketchbook: Speckled Bark, 10 May 2011
I stopped on the way home from work…from the car I saw the speckled pattern of the bark among the trees on the creek bank.
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Sketchbook: California and Taft, San Luis Obispo, June 2010
The view from the laundromat window. When you’re from Ohio, palm trees look exotic. Californiaites probably don’t see them.
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Watercolor: Hidden Life In Slate Farm Metro Park Barn
Watercolor, from a photo Barbara snapped in the barn at Slate Run Farm near Columbus OH.
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Thomas Merton: “…They never succeed in being themselves.”
“Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints. They never succeed in being themselves…”
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“Singularity” And The Personal Pronoun
The content of the word “God” and the content of a word like “singularity” are nearly the same. They are functional synonyms. The differences are due to different intensities of exegesis. The “God” adherents have just spent more time reasoning about their concept, so there is more articulated content on the books. The “singularity” adherents…
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Why Memoir?
It’s not just that I want you to hear my memories. We’ve all had that experience when we were young, that boredom as the old ones tell us the same stories for the hundredth time. I felt it with my father. At some point you will cross the tipping point, where you will realize one day you…
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“An explained thing…is almost inevitably explained away.”
“An explained thing, except for very resolute thinkers, is almost inevitably ‘explained away’. Speaking generally, it may be said that the demand for explanation is due to the desire to be rid of mystery.” Basil Willey, “The Seventeenth Century Background”, p.14
