Monthly Archives: July 2010
loyalty
Loyalty is a quality that through the years has transformed within my mind and heart, like the sky changes its colors. Previously, it seemed a primitive reactionary behavior in which emotion and self-interest combined to suppress reason and ethics, a … Continue reading
A Path Disinterested
How do we humans best understand impartiality or disinterestedness? The cumbersome German word Unvoreingenommenheit* provides a possible analogy for the inherent convolution of the concept. Let’s say two children are arguing. A wise adult can indeed listen impartially and sort … Continue reading
asleep
Persimmon orange washes blankly across my waking field of vision to where it weakens and dissolves in turquoise. A white tower on a nearby rooftop blinks out time in tomato red, the tiny light on top sticking up for development … Continue reading
Self-Government
If we think of rebellion, we usually think of it as disruptive and volatile. We think of armed rebels, teenage rebels, prisoner rebellions. Rebels work to wrest a situation out of a realm of control, for however short or long … Continue reading
Sunday Morning
This post carries the scent of eggs and vegetables sizzling on the stove. The pleasures of the urban weekend are many. No lawn waits to be mowed, but insects still buzz in the mind . . .