You’re always taking stock of your past, the decisions you’ve made that got you to this moment, and you wonder if you’re on a trajectory that’s still climbing or already settled sneakily into a long slow descent. You look back to look forward.
Read MoreLONELY JACKET
I worry that the story of how it got there and all of the many decisions that brought it into being—who designed it, who manufactured it, who shipped it, sold it, took it home, wore it, and ultimately hung it up for perpetuity might never be told.
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A SENSUAL BLOG
Life of the mind intertwines with life of the senses, but they do not depend on each other. The more a person can incorporate aspects of both, the more a person is empowered to act in the face of the onrushing day. But a life given over to pure information is one abandoned to gray irrelevancy.
Read MoreTRUE BELIEVERS
Folk music espouses a world that fundamental believes in peaceful coexistence. It regards an innate nobility and value in people—all people.
Read MoreLONG PLAYING RECORD
But when everything is available all the time, each item in particular matters less and less. It’s the law of supply and demand, the dilemma of tasty food served at an already heavily laden table, the cool drink of water offered in the middle of 40 days of rain.
Read MoreTHE MINOR FALL, THE MAJOR LIFT
Alas, nothing lasts. Nothing lasts, but we try anyway. We try and we persevere and some of us wouldn’t have it any other way.
Read MoreTHE REAL AND VIRTUAL PERILS OF PAULINE
When frames of reference are no longer tightly tethered to the real world, do we share as much with each other when we consume each others imagined experiences?
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IN THE ART UNIVERSE THERE’S SUDDENLY A NEW SUPERNOVA
A recent move by the famedMetropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is having the effect of opening opportunities that will be fabulously valuable to all of those who simply cannot expect to travel the globe just to see paintings and sculpture.
Read MoreSOMEWHERE IN NEW MEXICO THE FIRST ASTRONAUT TO MARS LEARNS ALGEBRA
Creativity takes a gutsy, tireless person to see something in the intangible spaces between us, something you can’t touch or easily characterize.
Read MoreOLD HARD DRIVES
Things that consume our energy and our attention today will be completely irrelevant in a surprisingly short time from now.
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