Clouds Above a Ball by Paul Klee, 1928, water color. “The lords of baseball have always ruled that a strike isn’t a strike because it fits neatly into a box; it’s a strike simply because it is called one by an umpire. The very reason an umpire uses...
“Old trees– How exquisite the white blossom On the gnarled branch! Thickened trunk, erratic shape Battered by winter winds, Bent in the long cold.” —from the poem ‘Old Trees’ by May Sarton Loud red lipstick on older women. (You define...
[based on dialogue with Caroline Kelley, Phd. and Tim Lyons, almost Phd.] How do we live? How do we live our lives? Self-help? Is Self-help our god? The Gay Science, Eternal Recurrence, Every Aspect of Your Life Will Be Repeated Again and Again, What If, a philosophy...
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“For most of us, knowledge of our world comes largely through sight, yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would...