Have you ever created something from nothing? How did you do it? The Big Bang Theory, now back in vogue among cosmologists, I believe, posits such a thing about the creation of the Universe-- it, we, every thing-- came from nothing. They tend to be more interested in the several nanoseconds after the Big Bang than in what (?) preceded it, leaving it to philosophers and theologians to speculate about the First Cause, the Unmoved Mover, the Uncreated Creator -- if any. Well, of

RESIST, INDIVISIBLE, Town Hall Confrontations, Invigorated Bernies and assorted Greens and Feminists.. the wheels are grinding slowly toward defining and promulgating a collective progressive response to the 22-million person movement that is TrumpTweetWorld. Whether such a motley assortment of largely mainstream college-educated people can somehow rise to the level of a National social movement is doubtful. Without self-conscious committed joint energy from the Black and La

Boundaries. They are everywhere. Really, look around you. I've been thinking a lot about boundaries lately, and must go back to Lexi's dissertation to refresh myself on some typologies, wide-ranging references, and hypotheses. Then I'll couple with Vickers' Venn Diagram and the systems idea that boundaries are two-faced, constraining and enabling. Most fascinating in personal and interpersonal life is the way people are with their boundaries, and those of others. Games like t

Yes, kids, there are many of what they call The Universe. I just watched a video on String Theory in Quantum Physics (.LINK) As I understand it, there are 11 Dimensions, plus one for measure. (Or maybe fewer, they say; no consensus.) How many do you think there are? ALL created from these dancing singing sparkling, ethereal vibrating strings. All.. ALL..Everything! WOW??! From tiny tiny strings? Like music? That sounds like pure energy-- whiter than white, way beyond our fre

Ruminations. To Rumin-ate: To digest; to chew ones cud. Compositions. To Com-pose: To pose together. Art-Game. The DAILY TWIT. Early morning finger exercises. Commen-tary. Gramps. A fictional character known to some. Corres-pondence. One (incorrect) theory of Truth. Also, email and such.

Hi, Kids. If you are at the tippy-top of your family tree, the latest bud and blossom, the Tron family is down at the roots. Way back, beyond the stars, shrouded in the mist of Deep Time. All the ancestors have mothers and fathers, and all the mothers and fathers have mothers and fathers. The ancestors had brothers and sisters and cousins who created branches and twigs of their own. And so it goes, back toward a Beginning. But what beginning? Did we come ultimately from fallo

Hi Kids. It's Gramps again, talking about the past. Our ancestors made us who we are, so I like to know who they were. You can see what I've learned at the family history page. But that's just the beginning, just a few families closest to me. How many ancestors do you have? More than you can count, more than you can know, more than the stars in a dark night sky. What's beyond the stars? More stars. So you are like a speck of star dust fallen to earth and given the breath of l