Life &Philosophy Entropy | 08 Apr 2009
This is a deeply insightful & relevant piece by one of my favorite NYT Columnist David Books The End of Philosophy. Socrates talked. The assumption behind his approach to philosophy, and the approaches of millions of people since, is that moral thinking is mostly a matter of reason and deliberation: Think through moral problems. Find [...]
Life &Poetry Entropy | 05 Apr 2009
Here is a story about the essential gift of poetry. In an essay called “Childhood and Poetry” Pablo Neruda links an odd event from his boyhood to the affirmative impulses of lyric poetry itself. Neruda grew up in Temuco, a far outpost in southern Chile. He remembers playing in the backyard behind the family house [...]
Poetry &Sprituality Entropy | 02 Apr 2009
Carl Sandburg 1878 – 1967 worked from the time he was a young boy. He quit school following his graduation from eighth grade in 1891 and spent a decade working a variety of jobs. He delivered milk, harvested ice, laid bricks, threshed wheat in Kansas, and shined shoes in Galesburg’s Union Hotel before traveling as [...]