The Universe is Not a Machine
Reducing, as we have done for the past two hundred years, the universe to a machine, some kind of a machine, then robs it of meaning. Then we stand back and look at our lives and our societies and say how come they have no meaning? It’s because we labored like demons to make sure that they didn’t have meaning, and now we have no one to blame but ourselves for the gross simplification of reality and the betrayal of experience that we a

Wishing You a Joy Filled Thanksgiving Day
Whether today means time with friends and family or solitary peacefulness, I hope it is a day of thankfulness for what you have. Happy Thanksgiving Day to all my bloggy friends. Stumble upon something good? Share it on Stumb

A Virus Walks into a Bar
What does it say about me if, despite comments on BoingBoing and Youtube that these jokes are ‘groaners,’ I laughed my head off at most of them? Yes, I know, I’m a nerd. Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponShare

Calypso
Calypso adopted me the day I spotted her looking out from beneath a parked car in front of my basement apartment. She was fluffy and ratty and very very pregnant. I’m not sure, now, about what year that was, but I think it was around 1995 or 1996. I think, but am also not sure, that she was about 5 years old at the time. She made my life a brighter place for the past 14 years. I said goodbye to Calypso this morning as she was gently put to sleep by our family vet.

Quotes on Having an ‘Original Relationship w/the Universe’
Lately I’ve been coming across blog articles and conversations and snippets in books that reiterate my feelings when I wrote An Original Relationship with the Universe. I decided, before I lost track of more of them, to post them here as I find them. From Apophatic Attic: It occurred to me that this is what we do: we create reality out of a mesh of metaphors and then explore that reality on the basis the metaphors are real. I am not saying that’s a bad thing, by the way. B