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Category: Musing
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Speaking the Language of Love
Yesterday I wrote an essay on love, loneliness, and the deleterious effect of social isolation on society at large. I had also, in honor of (late) tax day, shared a quote from a Thomas Sowell essay with a comment that charity cannot be compelled. The essay and the quote meme are related. One of…
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Restaurant Rant: A Guest Post
Cedar’s note: a good friend posted this on social media, and I asked if I might share it here. It hits home for me – you might recall that the First Reader and I have spent many happy days hunting for small mom’n pop restaurants. We really don’t want to eat at franchises or…
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Social Creatures
Inside the human mind is a strange and wonderful place. Humans are social creatures: we are designed to support one another, not to exist alone. These last few months have brought this to the top of consciousness in a way I never expected. I spent this last weekend at a writer’s retreat. It was…
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Ideas
First of all, if you are in search of creative ideas, you might wander over to More Odds Than Ends and find a spare prompt that tickles your fancy. I’m not sure where the fancy is located – maybe it’s different for everyone? Regardless, there’s sure to be one that does it. And you…
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One Step at a Time
I’m having one of those days where the ideas are coming, but they are flitting over the surface of my mind like mayflies, and as soon as I fix on one, it dies. Then another pops up in it’s place. If I could capture what was in my head without use of the keyboard…
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The Caution Bump
I was out on a lovely trail the other day when I came across temptations. The trail was parallel to another trail, and in between them was a small creek. At one point I thought I would be fun to cross over to the other trail as I was reaching my self-imposed time limit…
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And then, the changes
We had a sad moment this weekend. The First Reader decided that since restaurants in our state are beginning to open back up, we should go out. He also decided that he had better call ahead, just to be sure. He pulled up one of our favorite restaurants on the internet, and turned around.…
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A wealth of affection
I fell asleep in my desk chair last night. Not sure why – it hadn’t been a strenuous day. But I was awakened by the First Reader poking me and saying “go to bed.” I demurred, and he said “no, you fell asleep sitting up. Bed.” There are things to be said for having…
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Fresh Air for the Mind
The death of critical thinking and logic in our culture has become more and more evident in the last few years, reaching a feverish peak during the recent crisis. It doesn’t matter if this was engineered – and no, I do not mean that the virus was engineered (it was clearly not) nor do…
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Babes in the Wood
As I was out walking, I had an encounter that stuck with me afterward and got my mind wandering off the beaten path. It was a little thing, but there’s a panoply of history behind it. Something the modern civilized human seems to have forgotten. Look. It’s not that nature is out to kill…
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Title Goes Here
‘m up, but I’m not attem. I woke up this morning at the very definition of oh-dark-thirty. After lying in bed for a while, I gave it up and got up. Then I had to find my glasses. You would think, after wearing them for thirty years now, I’d have learned to never put…
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Life Goes On
I’m back in the trenches again. After a week off for sickness/quarantine, it feels good to be at work. I may be returning to normal, but my morning commute to work reminded me that not everyone is continuing their routines. Disruptions continue. Traffic was light, and flow of traffic speed was about 10 mph faster…