They crowded the gate, anxious for entry. It was a heavenly late afternoon, the sky blue, the sun radiant, you…
“In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche Early June. Dawn brings mist covered mountains…
What I am going to say is not uplifting, so you can rip up this letter now if you want encouragement. The people whom I thought I knew never changed. They continue to believe the false premises that keep them smiling despite decades of facts to the contrary.
Years ago when I was twenty-seven years-old and my father fifty-eight, we wandered around an off-beat section of a small…
Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is, rather,…
Without having read the details and having no intention to do so, I am still wondering if The New York’s…
While days like Mother’s Day are corny, they do elicit memories. I think of my mother. She died at the…
“And there are those who claim that Big Data will supplant Sapiens and drag him helplessly along like a straw…
It takes a system to wage war, and civil and military obedience to support it.
Royal Opera House Covent Garden ‘Scene from Goethe’s Faust’ by Edward Henry Corbould, 1852 “All things transient are but a…