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…
“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…