CITIZEN
Here is where I, Citizen, bark at the moon. Oh, I mean grunt? Will either yield the desired results?
THESE DAYS… 2020
Yeah, well, These Days... World's in turmoil - dirty politicians, befuddled bureaucracies, stress in the air along with the aerosols, ash, and CO2. Yes, there are brave new and brave old politicians stepping into the light, hopefully to lead us into the promised land....
PAST ARTICLES
HOW NOT TO BE A NIHILIST?
So most certainly you've entertained the idea of being a Nihilist, if you haven't just outright been one. No explanations necessary. Life is rough. Sometimes it just sucks.... But allow me to take you through my argument why I'm not going to be. At least for now....
JUICY BLUE SKIES 2020
I awaken to no sound.Leave eyes shut.Rustle my sheets and wonder what words can describe that sound I never thought to investigate til now. Nowhere to go just now.Investigate. Eyes shut: there is the darkness like velvet and jelly and dirt all at once.A moving plasma....
RANGE. Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein
How do you identify? Specialist or Generalist? Here’s a brief trip through the mindset of a generalist, a review of David Epstein’s book RANGE.
I Dreamt I was a Republican
In the dream, I called my mother, who is dead, and told her I was switching parties. She was not only dead, she was a liberal. “I will now identify as white. Snow White.”….. I wandered around the next day like a cipher. I looked at my skin color and realized it wasn’t even really white after all. In fact, when I sat on the subway next to a Chinese man I noticed our skin color was the same. Maybe I was a yellow person after all. What the hell heritage could I really claim any more?
HOPE JUST AIN’T ENOUGH
At the dawn of a new decade, as I find myself simultaneously reflecting backward and forward in time, the word which keeps repeating in my head is hope. Hope, a signature word for the Obama era, now seems woefully inadequate to the task ahead. We can’t hope our way...
How the Making of Game of Thrones might be a paradigm…
Having just watched the two hour documentary on the making of Season Eight of Game of Thrones, I found myself, the next evening, experiencing a flash about its significance. The stars of this doc are not the actors, but everyone else that made up the production crew,...
Candide ~ 2019
Anyone playing the part of Pangloss, from Voltaire’s satire Candide, would appear an utter buffoon at this juncture. Tutor to the young, sheltered baron Candide, Professor Pangloss remained, despite suffering numerous slings and arrows such as syphilis, hanging, near...
Bridging the Divide
This once great, 'indivisible' nation is being divided. This once great nation is corroding from within. Bitterness and enflamed emotions rule in a land once unified by a sense of common purpose. We Americans are being cajoled into a surreal drama that reads more like...
