Category: Philosophy
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Working On The Optimist’s Rag and Other Extraneous Matters
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You may have noticed some gibberish when you came on site. All I know is that it is WordPress database error or that is what it says,. My son is on it. I haven’t the slightest clue as to what that means. When I go into the greasy compacted mossy…
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Catching Up With Mt. Lemmon
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I’m at poolside now, late into dusk. In the distance an immense cloud is above the Catalinas. It’s as if a big fist gave a shiner to the sky. A covey of birds, new to me, strut linearly about the pool, mother and chicks. Offbeat bird sounds punctuate the lambent…
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A Lemmonade Twist
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Last night at the Vistoso Commerce loop exit on to Oracle Road, I stopped the car and put off the lights. Dozens of small fires crept down the ridges of the Catalinas. It seemed a fitting salute to the July Fourth Holiday several days away. This morning the gullies and…
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There’s A Haze Along The Ridge
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There’s a haze along the ridge, Pusch Ridge, as they call it after an early settler of Oro Valley. Small plumes of smoke sully the slopes for a few miles like a sulphuric mountain acne. The heat of the day compounds all this, so that the light itself seems to have…