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  • Actual news

    Studying in sufficient depth and insights the lives and minds of other “times and climes” allows one – potentially – to recognize what are the news and olds, the real, the repetitive, the facades, the actual in life stories of the present, and past.

  • “know thyself?”

    Reading and reviewing how creatively adaptive “Southerners” were in conceiving, explaining and justifying themselves and their states’ and Confederacy secessions also sub specie dei…

    …I am reminded of the useful truthfulness of an idea and its name which took me a few of decades of study in history, and a couple of decades of thinking, to conceive. Here from an early record of it:

    http://steppenwolfmoscow1.blogspot.com/2012/03/anthrography.html

  • Skybound

    No matter howsoever much Mankind is bound to the Earth, he seems also unavoidably skybound.

  • “City on a Hill”

    Oak Alley

    “Plantation on a rise”.

  • “Plantation on a hill”

    Monticello

    With the Puritans’ “city on the hill” in mind, the ambiguities of History and Humanity of a plantation on a hill.

  • Nietzsche, FD’s Grand Inquisitor, and Clouds

    Nietzsche’s studied theological recognition of “the death of God”, as well as Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor’s sinful benevolence to the many…, both acknowledge that average men and women cannot well live without God.

    But the cloudy* life inside of which most “live and move and have their being” still keeps this unclear, and avoidable. As I saw again this past fall.

    *etymologically “clouds” related to “clods”.

  • Politeness rules

    How much of life, real deeds, events and their stories, insights, facts, and truths are unspoken and lost… being polite.

  • Mississippi Burnt

    Some of the cast, and most of the “extras”, in Mississippi Burning are a realistic – and “embarrassing”– visual physiognomical “statement” against “all men created equal”.

    Father, forgive them, for the can’t help what/how they are.?

  • Twinkle twinkle little…

    stars have such a distance from us that they cannot be romanticized as the moon. They may constitute a visual element to theology, deism, cosmology, even a kind of grand naturalism. But they are too distant from us…we are too distant from them, for them to interact directly into our daily earthly lives. The stars are closer to hopes, beliefs, aspirations…perhaps also to cold despair, nihilism… But they are not an influential aspect of our human lives.

  • Oops!

    I just found several “Notes” which I did not move from draft into publishing….

    But I see that they are embedded into the Notes in the time of composition.

    🤷🏼‍♂️ 🤪 🫣