Consulting the Oracles of Time
In a memoir there is always a present time from which a shepherd, tending the flock of memories, sends out his rescue missions. And...
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Remembering Betty
Last weekend I attended a memorial gathering for Betty Senescu. Her passing at age 92 brought together at least a hundred people. Judging from...
The Weaver is Being Woven.
In my own life, I have experienced recurrent changes in how my eyes viewed my world: in 1968, after a fire expelled me from...
Communications from the Field
“To live your life is not to cross a field.” Hamlet poem in Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak The edition of “Dr. Zhivago” that showed...
What’s Next?
Light is showing up among the branches visible through my sunroom windows. Not enough to predict what kind of day it will be, but...
An Unanticipated Trip.
A man, who for several years hasn’t driven outside the radius that holds his grocery store and a few favorite restaurants, is planning a...
Wind-Tossed Trees
“The moment we resolve to invite knowledge into our lives, we have already activated it. Do we wish to live a life rich...
Preface (preliminary draft)
I have to ask myself why I imagine I can write a book about the TSK vision—introduced to the world with the publication in...
The State of the Emperor’s New Clothes.
Tonight the emperor will appear in his finery and share with his subjects a few of his fantastic and incredible accomplishments. Who among us...
Which came first—the Chicken or the Road it Crossed?
“The projections of the human mind, which ordinarily seem to set the limits on what can be known, become instances of a knowing prior...