The facts are available, just not in the foolish buzz of mainstream culture
I’ve become hardened to expensive repairs, no chance of repair at all, and short-lived products that are cheaper to throw away than to fix. So have we all. That doesn’t mean we should happy about it
I’m not much enthused about travel. There’s too much travail in even the best of travel.
Montaigne occasionally comments in an essay what someone had to say about one other of his essays. The quote I started this essay with came from one of those occasions.
Humans chase fame, glory, riches, or any other achievement that might make their lives count to memorable purpose. If this human oddness could be explained to animals struggling to stay alive they would laugh in disbelief
There are many “good ole boys like me, neither city or country but somewhere between.I’m happy enough being somewhere between. I think it’s a blessing.
I guess we all agree that voting is the best way to truly guarantee the people's choice.
Betting doesn’t interest me. I have no enthusiasm for games of chance or for games in general.
Life allows me no escape from taking chances. I’d rather it didn’t. I certainly wouldn’t take chances for fun.
Is there is something embedded deep in the human psyche that makes us think we should be able to spread our wings and fly?
The Maccabees influenced in ways known - and in some ways beyond our knowing.
They often filled an entire page of newspaper. They were animated, engaging, beautiful. They were cartoons that wanted to be movies. They wanted to burst through the confines of two-dimensional print into full three-dimensional motion.
Great events, conversation, and
much else, drift where they will in unnoticed currents that move us to actions and places we never planned.
I’m willing to think more kindly of winter. I wish winter would do the same for me.
In my lifetime the America spirit of confident self-determination has been steadily eroded by ever-increasing acquiescence to, “experts”, “the-powers-that-be?, and useless thinking like, “It is what it is”.
News reports on judicial rulings constantly mislead; they regularly declare that some Court approved or rejected this-or-that policy. The judiciary is not empowered to decide whether a law is good or bad. They can only decide if a law is legally permissible
Anne stayed with him that night at the hospital. She listened and tried to understand what was going on in his head. She could make out a few words and fragments of sentences. Sometimes he would say something whole. He seemed to be in another time and place.