EXERCISE IN TRUTH TELLING

—–I was headed across the back parking lot at Grana’s Restaurant, in the driving rain about 9:30, taking the back alley to the unmarked rear entrance, and I got there right at the same time as Kurt, a regular patron at the bar.  “Not everybody knows about this door,” I said to him, as we [...]

Beauty in Disarray

—–The argument for God is not via harmony in nature, but meaning in your own life. Nothing proceeds from wondering on the profound, or the strangeness of this scene, and leaving out your own awareness.  I cannot prove the spiritual by an implication, it is instead spectacularly missing, in the very beauty of disarray. But [...]

Logic of the Spendthrift

—–It is true that a carefree expenditure of money actually produces more (carefree) income, from unexpected sources, simply because if you are open to the one end of a transaction (giving), you are open to the other (taking). Money being a transaction flowing through you, fundamentally.  If you draw in the reins, pull back on [...]

MY LIFE ON ELEVATORS

—–There was a period in my life when I was constantly riding elevators.  As you know, every ride in an elevator results in another ride–obviously, elevator rides appearing in pairs, even if the down ride is eight hours after the up ride–though in my case it was during a period when I lived in New [...]

LINCHPIN; DEFENDING THE BELIEVER

—–I enter the conversation at the point where something is in dispute, a topic is rolling, being handed around, and now one person has been spurred on, forced to state a position, and into venturing what they believe.  I have been watching them talk, and when I see this eruption, gluing the participants to the [...]

McCarthy’s Great Breakthrough

—–A former WKOR news team helicopter pilot, who quit his job a year ago in a feud with his superiors, has now announced the results of a tremendous research project he conducted, aimed at establishing a true statistical account of traffic on Rochester, NY roads–particularly during rush hours.
—–James J. McCarthy, in releasing the results of [...]

“I’ll Get It!”

—–“Sometimes you think, well what is the use of a breakthrough now? And this is because you think you should have had all breakthroughs before, if you have been such a truth seeker, that by this age, so venerable are you!, that you should be just sitting on the porch or something, with your feet [...]

The Theater of Dissemblance

—–I saw a young man, or maybe a man no longer young, sitting on a rock pile; he was busily throwing rocks of all sizes around, gleefully and despondently, causing rock-slides and chain-reactions beyond the hill where he presided, in the sweltering heat, always keeping the activity going, as if he were required to make [...]

Jack-in-the-Box

Queen Anne’s Lace