“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;" - John Keats To Autumn by John Keats is one of those poetic treasures that suffers from its own success. You know it so well that you can’t...
"I wonder what the machines will think." - Philip K. Dick Sometimes, surprisingly reasonable advice can be gleaned from a paranoid dystopian metacog who was struck by a laser beam of pure intelligence from the “Vast Active Living Information System.”...
For most folks, New Year’s Eve is a time for reflection on the past year - or perhaps just a time to wipe the past year from your memory with a big bottle of your favorite hooch. But for those...
“The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. " - Marcus Aurelius, Book V, p. XX. So there’s a dumb...
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was a prolific essayist and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement. He championed individualism and man’s profound connection to nature. This quotation from his mid 19th...
From his play Antigone, on the temptation to sacrifice wisdom at the altar of power, and the cost of defying the gods. Those of us who are old enough to have been young adults in the previous century, straddle two different worlds. Even...
