Author: Tim
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Christian Wiman: “My Bright Abyss”
You’d see many scribbled arguments in the margins of my copy, but in spite of that I do like the book and think him wise and honest. What maddens me is a certain pattern of thought, one that is emblematically modern, that goes like this: 1. Thought A 2. Recognition of something unproven about thought…
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Snowdon and the Nuremberg Principle
If loyalty to the State is an insufficient defense, then disloyalty to the State is an insufficient indictment. The world established forever at Nuremberg that immoral acts don’t have authority as a defense. If that is true, then the converse is also true: “treason” cannot be attached when the exposed secret is an immoral (or…
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Sketchbook: Brown’s Creek Waterfall on Mount Princeton, June 2013
Two hours by horse up a rocky trail through aspen forests, and you come to this 75 foot waterfall. I think it is Brown’s Creek. The stream was raging, fed by the snowmelt from a mile above. Mount Princeton is one of about 56 peaks in Colorado that are more than 14,000 feet tall.
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Sketchbook: Pike’s Peak Hummingbird, June 2013
At the foot of Pike’s Peak we waited on the cogwheel train to arrive. The depot had hummingbird feeders hung from the rain gutters. There I saw the closest thing to a hummingbird flock I’ve seen. This guy (gal?) had a half-dozen companions.
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The Main Point of John’s “Revelation”
2,000 years ago we were warned about the moment when 3 things come together: Tech, Finance, Politics. We were told that when these become intersectional the evil power behind the world system would capture them and slaughter dissent. This vision, written when commerce was still barter, and technology was the donkey, is the single most…
