It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve retreated since the world changed so drastically. I can’t say it’s better or worse than any era in the past. I can say it appears much more chaotic and the pace at which it’s getting there is much greater than any other time I can recall. Maybe old age is clouding my judgement and memory and I’m just like a lot of older people – being…
When I was a child everything seemed so wondrously new and waiting to be discovered. Even if had already been discovered by someone else, what mattered was that I hadn’t yet experienced it. As the years passed and I delighted in each discovery, I knew one day the well would begin to lower each time I partook of it. The new and novel would still come but it would require much more effort and patience.…
There’s been a spate of recent prominent figures who have been recorded during an unguarded moment uttering something one would ever say in polite company. It’s almost always racist. When the storm over the recording gets to a level where it becomes uncomfortable for the recorded subject, a public statement will be released. It’s always a variation of the following as paraphrased: “I wasn’t raised that way. I didn’t grow up that way. I’m not…
Work has been uninspiring to me as of late. Hints of dissatisfaction of the general state of the world was creeping into my own professional life. I can only say that I felt un-tethered and adrift. I mired myself in gloom and uncertainty of the world. If I could’ve observed myself from a different vantage, I would’ve found the sight sad and unflattering. Then just a few days ago, I received an e-mail about an…
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…