Friday, March 13, 2009

Sleepless

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Dear Reader, Ironically, for a man from a race of sleepwalkers, I can't sleep tonight. My Grandma, Ann Saling, died a week ago, and we h...

Spelling

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Dear Reader, I just corrected the spelling in my comment about myself, which previously read "curioser and curioser." My wife is a...
Thursday, October 09, 2008

Pathei Mathos

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Dear Reader, I have started reading William Chase Greene's Moira: Fate, Good, & Evil in Greek Thought (1944, reprinted 1963) and I...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Tripping over the Voids

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Dear Reader, I noticed when Michael Distaso died. Death is not the five stages of grieving, neither like a program nor even like the authors...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Morgana LeFaye Marshall

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2 February 1989 – 15 April 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008

Morgana in Passing

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Dear Reader, I am sitting up with Morgana, our nineteen-year-old kitty. She is dying. Her decline has been rapid. A week ago she was still j...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

The Blessing of Paralysis

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[Originally written Sunday, 24 December 2006 at 12:27 PM] Dear Reader, When I force myself to do the wrong thing, eventually I lose my abili...
Thursday, December 27, 2007

EFL (English as a First Language)

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Dear Reader, As far as I know, I coined this sarcastic term about a decade and a half ago, but with modern cultural churn who can tell anymo...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Three New Volumes of Serge Mouraviev's Heraclitea, Part 1

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Cover of Serge Mouraviev's Heraclitea volume III.3.B/i, published by Academia Verlag Dear Reader, I last discussed Serge Mouraviev's...
Sunday, October 14, 2007

How Quick in Temper and in Judgment Weak

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Dear Reader, Rudeness, aggression, rage, paranoia, and addiction to crises make a wretched brew, make it difficult to help or even be close ...
Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Nonpersistence of Memory

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Dear Reader, I based my description of the picture in the previous entry on the photo's timestamp recorded by the camera, but Beverly po...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Rashid and Surya a Year Ago

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Dear Reader, July of last year we brought home Rashid and Surya from PAWS. He was snuffly with a cold, which it took him a week and a half t...
Saturday, April 28, 2007

True words aren't beautiful

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Dear reader, One last verse, 81, from Red Pine's Lao Tzu's Taoteching : True words aren't beautiful beautiful words aren't t...
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The Way begets them

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Dear reader, Here is verse 51 from Red Pine's Lao Tzu's Taoteching : The Way begets them Virtue keeps them matter shapes them usage ...

The Tao Moves the Other Way

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Dear Reader, Here is verse 40 from Red Pine's Lao Tzu's Taoteching : The Tao moves the other way the Tao works through weakness the ...

Lao Tzu's Taoteching

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Dear Reader, Heraclitus and Lao Tzu were probably contemporaries, though Lao Tzu was probably the elder. Any reader of their books is struck...
Thursday, March 01, 2007

The Finger

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Dear Reader, Yesterday, I resumed the Ancient Greek Philosophy course I am taking from Kenneth Smith. We are still working our way through H...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Communication

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Dear Reader, I go through phases in which I cannot bear to "communicate" with my fellow human beings. Communication would be nice,...
Saturday, January 27, 2007

Fame

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Dear Reader, I hope I never become famous. I certainly do my best in this blog to ensure I never will. Yours truly, Rick

Humanism, the Modern Temper

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Dear Reader, Man, Nature, and God: what are the relations among these three? What is the rightful source of values, morals, behavior, cultur...