Influential Books
Charles Pirsig just died. Long obit in NYT highlights the cultural impact of his Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It doesn't mention that it was studying philosophy at the U. of Chicago that drove him crazy, which made the book personal for me. Like me, Pirsig was cowed by the tyranny of Reason, as personified by Richard McKeon and his course on Aristotle. Pirsig's contrarian emphasis on the pre-Socratic notion of "Arete"-- Quality-- was very attractive to me. Other
The Daily Twit: Hola, Mexicans!
Jeff Sessions, my great Attorney General, has started the Roundup.. so you might as well go home now. Watch him bring order to our lawless cities with great policing! Pretty soon, we'll build the Great Wall of Texas.. better than China.. Then, when Congress gives me the money.. on to California.. like the Gold Rush. BOOM, not bust, for industries I love!!
Love Trumps Fear
every time, eventually, as water wears rock.


River Walk, Spring
Buster and I walk the Rivanna River Trail in every season. Virginia Blue Bells in Spring.
The Daily Twit
Chocolate cake.. delicious.. sweet thinking of 59 missiles dropping on the bad guy. Big boom around the world. Beginning to like this job.
Apologies to the Next Generation
I'm truly sorry that my generation is leaving you with such a mess. Perhaps every generation aspires to pass on to the next a world at least as good as the one it inherited. Growing up in the American Midwest in the 1950s, I was imbued with the cultural belief in Progress, a benign faith that life was generally getting better over time. Moreover I was taught that it is a civic duty-- especially for the privileged-- to promote the welfare of the larger community. "What does


This Blog is Different.
This blog is an inside job.. inside my web site. Social media scare me; I don't want the world beating a path to my door. Really. Living in traffic?! No thanks. More friends I don't know? Why? So, here's a trail of crumbs for the few curious enuf to explore it. cheers, bl