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New Year Resolutions?
New Year Resolutions? It’s 2018, the firecrackers have ceased their explosive booming sounds, the subzero temperatures are keeping everyone indoors who can manage to stay there – except for the people like the ones on crews working to repair downed … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1099 forms, 2018 calendar, address book, affirmation, afterlife, calendar app, cheerfulness, clutter, contemplation, crews on powerlines, curing worry, death and dying, deathbed busybodies, discarding books, emotional baggage, endangered species, file cabinets, file folders, final preparations, finding books, firecrackers, go fight city hall, going into the light, Henry David Thoreau, human survival, inherited baggage, keeping accounts, last arrangements, Leo Bronstein, letting go, life's surprises, loyalty to origins, making one's peace with God, mantra, Mrs. Emerson, New Year's resolution, nothin' I can do about it, oversimplification, past and future, peace of mind, personal inventory, personal worry, planetary worry, political worry, project completed, projects abandoned, purging files, purity, quarreling with God, quiet desperation, Ralph Waldo Emerson, simplify simplify, sloganeering, sorting books, staying indoors, sub-zero temperatures, survivor's tasks, tax data, the New Year, the next world, the old year, the unexpected, Thoreau dying, Thoreau's laundry, Thoreau's Walden, world-wide worry, worry, worrying less
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“The Well of Time”
“The Well of Time” “Very deep is the well of the past.” So, in Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann begins his monumental recreation of the Biblical Book of Genesis. In early adolescence, Mann’s Joseph was my favorite book, together … Continue reading →
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Tagged adolescence, adult conversation, alchemy, ancestors, autonomy, bad luck, biblical experience, biblical redactors, biblical time, bitterness, boredom, childhood, choice, convenant, creativity, evanescence, family life, feeling trapped, fleetingness, flux of time, fortune, freedom, God's time, good luck, grandfather, grownups and kids, Homer's Odyssey, kid's stuff, lottery of life, memory, no exit, pagan time, paganization, past and future, past present and future, personal authority, promising, remembrance, responsibility, restlessness, revelation, self-determination, sexual competition, sexual rivalry, social life, social position, social safety, The Bible, The Book of Genesis, The Joseph stories, The Old Testament, the specious present, Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers, threats, Time, time and eternity, winners and losers, writers
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“Chronology”
“Chronology” From precognitive dreams, where the future is recognizably predicted before it happens, we can infer that time is other than what ordinarily we think it is. From the way philosophers have sometimes talked, mathematicians and physicists too on occasion, … Continue reading →
Posted in alienation, culture, eternity, guilt and innocence, history, history of ideas, legal responsibility, literature, memoir, nineteenth-century, Phenomenology of the Mind, philosophy, political, psychology, relationships, time, work
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Tagged "To His Coy Mistress", accuracy, agression and self-defense, Andrew Marvell, anomie, cause and effect, chronology, Classical, clock time, Copernicus, despair, dimensions, disorientation, Enlightenment, factory workers, George Washington, Hellenistic, history of civilization, injustice, justice, mathematics, memory, metaphysical poetry, Modernity, narrative, Newton, past and future, personal power, philosophy, physics, precognitive dreams, reality, Romanticism, Rome, seduction, Socrates, students, synchronization, Taylorism, temporality, theology, time and eternity, time and place, time zones, trans -continental railroads, world history
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