Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
Posted in Observations, Odds & Ends, Philosophy, religion on May 7th, 2009
A comment made by fellow philosophy major and Guilford College classmate, Stephen Lewis, in a recent email was cause enough for reflection in its own right; however, the implications of his observations became acutely relevant last week as I grappled with an injury to my right knee and calf. Steve’s remarks were offered in the [...]
Posted in Observations, Odds & Ends on Apr 17th, 2009
I’ve been a proponent of organic gardening since the late sixties when I discovered J I Rodale and his Organic Gardening and Prevention magazines–in their present state both magazines are mere shadows of what they once were in their heyday. And I’ve had a compost pile in one form or another percolating somewhere on the [...]
Posted in Observations, Odds & Ends, religion on Mar 24th, 2009
Triad Stage’s production of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen was certainly one of the better performances I’ve seen this season. Ghosts was a pleasant departure from the less engaging works that have been produced recently. Perhaps my imagination is playing tricks on me but it seems as if there has been a tendency toward much lighter [...]
Posted in Fun, Observations, Odds & Ends, Philosophy on Mar 22nd, 2009
About once or twice a year, usually following a particularly heavy rainfall, we are visited with willowy veins of ants whose periodic precision invades our bathroom. It may be coincidence that the darkening lines of insects grow in response to the scouting dance of the lead ants but information of some kind is conveyed in [...]
Posted in Fun, General, Observations, Odds & Ends on Jan 9th, 2009
A couple of weeks ago I traded caution for curiosity and joined Facebook. We’ve all read accounts about the raft of questionable photos and ignominiously foolish comments posted on Facebook for all the world to see, or worse, curious employers tempted to check the accuracy of such reports. My adult children and many,if not all [...]
Scribbling
Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
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The Zero
A Novel
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