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Category: Musing
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Live Free or Die
That’s what my shirt says today, anyway. I’m wearing one of my old tees that I picked up in N’Ampsha with the state motto on it. And an eagle that is more cute than fierce, although I don’t think that was the intention of the designer. I was thinking about the motto on my way…
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Reader Input Requested
I looked back at the blog for the last couple of weeks, and realized that I have been meandering all over the map. It is reflective, perhaps, of my state of mind as I’ve been dealing with life outside of work, and coping with emergencies. However, I’m sure it’s not what you all want to…
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Proper Gormless
I drove into work this morning through heavy fog. It was heavy enough to prompt schools to go on a two-hour delay, but not so heavy as to make me worry about driving in it. I spent a good chunk of my childhood on the Oregon coast, and one of the many marks that left…
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Real life, real people
I had not intended to leave the blog vacant this weekend. But there are times in my life I have to choose between the real people in my real life, and the online people who are no less real but much less in my face. I’m not apologizing, don’t get me wrong. I’m blessed beyond…
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Indicium Difficile Part I
Judgement is difficult. The final part of the Hippocratic quote I’ve been riffing on to write this series of essays. I can easily see in the word ‘indicium’ the root of our English word ‘indict’ which isn’t pronounced anything like it looks. Definition of indict transitive verb 1: to charge with a fault or offense…
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Vita Brevis
Part the second, you may like to read the first part here before beginning this essay. Life is short. As the technology and medicine has evolved and developed over the last century, the human lifespan has expanded along with it. We can theorize about the end of aging, and a postponement of death for a unprecedented…
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Ars Longa
Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, indicium difficile Art is long, life short, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgement difficult This is the first part of a series of essays I’ve long wanted to write, but it wasn’t until I saw the full of the quote I knew best as ‘ars longa, vita brevis’…
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Brainnzzz
It’s been one of those days. There ought to have been a post this morning – uploading an image glitched out, so that didn’t happen. On the other hand, my excursion to make sure that all the paperwork was indeed in order was successful, and that’s one big project off my plate. It’s not often…
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Cultivating Patience
I don’t do bored very well. Or patient, for that matter. I can do both of them, although I get a bit twitchy, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. I joked the other day about being an adult meant that I could indulge in something small from time to time, but it…
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Contentment
As I was getting ready to write this post, and planning out my day, the thunderstorm that had been predicted moved over our house. I had to take a moment to go out and watch. The pouring rain, the growl of thunder… just as I came in, the lightning and thunder were growing louder and…
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Transitions are Hard
“Tis a fine spring morning here in Ohio, and I’m in yet another life change. I’ve known this was coming for a while – a little over four years in school seems like a long time, but in the grand scheme of things it’s really not. For some reason, I thought that as an older…
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Toxic Tired
I’ve been whining a little on social media recently about being tired, and I really shouldn’t. I was musing on this at work the other day, while my hands were busy but my mind wasn’t. I am tired, yes, but it’s a good tired. It’s the tired of being physically tested after several years of…