The ancient Greeks more or less defined and created the genre we all know as a “tragedy”. I sometime think that they appreciated the tragic more than any of the other aspects of life. Appreciate may not be apt. I think it’s more that they so want to understand like the rest of us. The way the ancient Greeks approach this aspect of life is more direct than most people nowadays can handle. To place…
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.†– Frank Herbert, Dune. It’s not original to start a post with a quote…
In economics everything is boiled down to a commodity. When there’s great demand and/or limited supply, prices go up. When there’s little demand and/or a glut prices go down. There’s one “commodity” where the supply and demand is less flexible – time. We all have exactly what we have and nothing will buy us individually more time. This is my roundabout way of explaining why I haven’t had the opportunity to write for this website…
If anyone has come to this website and has been reading my drivel, you’ll have noticed my entries have been sparse this past year. It entirely has everything to do with a child and all the upkeep said child requires. Maybe not entirely, but a very large portion of it. Professionally speaking, it has been a good year. I’m not un-pleased with how things have turned out, though I think it could have been more…
I recall having experienced more joyous and wondrous experiences in my youth than I have in recent memory. My recollection may possibly be tinted by nostalgia, but I truly did experience those moments. There was a sense of newness and the promise of endless possibilities. Each of those memories are cherished whenever I recall them, because in retrospect the outcome has far outstripped what I possibly could have imagined. Having said all that, I don’t…