Continue Reading On being mortal The trucker wearing this t-shirt actually came quite close to dying – almost being murdered by your’s truly after she spent a…
Continue Reading On Aging My dissertation advisor Jerry Bruner died this summer at age 100. He played tennis still at the age of 93, although he admitted…
Continue Reading Truth, then and now EXPECTING THE BARBARIANS What are we expecting, gathered here in the marketplace? It’s the barbarians, they are coming today. Why is nothing happening in the…
Continue Reading Betrayed I will rise and go Down into Troy, and ere the stars come forth Talk with the wild Cassandra, for she says A fire dances…
Continue Reading Brains and Personality Felix Crow BY KAY RYAN Crow school is basic and short as a rule— just the rudiments of quid pro crow for most students. Then each lives out his unenlightened span, adding…
Continue Reading Bound to Nature From Endymion A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower…
Continue Reading Sitting down with Love Faith expressed beautifully Love Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back. Guiltie of dust and sinne. But quick-ey’d Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance…
Continue Reading Thinking about Magic while trying to fall asleep. And someone unbeknownst to me captured it perfectly CLOSED EYELIDS There is a winged silence precedes sleep, …
Continue Reading Synergy syn·er·gy noun “The interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum…
Continue Reading Philanthropy We’ll end this week on a positive note: people with big brains and big money care and give us some constructive ideas. The…
