Author: Matt

I cannot remember the title of the book by R.D. Laings, a well-known psychiatrist of the Sixties. It may have been called “Knots,” for that matter. What I dimly retain of the book was a series of verbal knots he presented to the reader, in verse, mind you, rather convoluted and…

We are waiting, Jane and I, to hear final word about the closing. Hopefully, it will be in the first week of June. We are faced with obstacles because of the financial paranoid state this country is in. And I find it hard to endure fools or underwriters who assume…

To quote Chesterton: “I am cultivating the faculty of patient expectancy.” In other words I am trying to deal with anxiety over the hassles that are occurring on getting out of this sealed tomb in the land of the dead. The moving men are here today to move Jane’s belongings…

With my periscope I am seeing Cheney who Hobbes might have defined as “short, nasty and brutish,” Darth Vadering the TV shows, exhaling toxicity like some primal creature. We actually have a “debate” in this country, if you call it that, about what is torture, the equivalent of describing a chicken…