Category: Commentary

  • More Lemmonade: Musing Over death

    I muse over what death, not dying, is like. What an abomination it would be to go on after death. Heaven and hell are twin disasters. I don’t want eternal constructs. So, I assume death is like 4 a.m. last night; I was out, not aware, not knowing, gone, zonked, dreamless.…

  • Mt. Lemmon Continued: Hearing

    Mt. Lemmon still burns on its western slopes, small brush is afire but the papers say that is good and will end soon. It still, to the eye, looks perilous. The sky this morning was a smudge above the mountain. I’ve been running around, doing errands, waiting for the alarm…

  • Am I Overly Sensitive?. . .I Hope So

    Struggling with my weight in an endeavor to avoid diabetes and to lower my blood pressure, I resolved to join Weight Watchers, which I did recently. I am perhaps the only man in a group of about 35 to 40; it fluctuates. I find the plan itself sane and doable,…

  • Jane Holt, Rationalist, Matt Freese, Intuitionist

    intuitionism n. the doctrine that all things are apprehended in their real nature through intuition  Webster’s New World Dictionary There’s the rub! It is on this interface that Jane and I slip. I dare not go on. For twice I have tried to write this blog and the computer ate…