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One highlight of July was having our grandson Sam from Baltimore visiting with us for several weeks. Another highlight was having the house to ourselves when he left. While Sam was with us, we made a trip to visit grandkids in two states and four cities, so he got to visit most of his cousins and aunts and uncles while he was here.
In July, Del and I celebrated our 22nd wedding anniversary and the advent of a new decade for me when I turned 60 on July 20, 2000. (I wonder how 60 can be the start of a new decade, and still some folks dare to insist that 2000 is not the start of the new millennium. “That is a pedantry up with which I will not put.” I say that about this foolishness, but Winston Churchill said that, when askied about the propriety of ending a sentence with a preposition.)
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Read a Poemlet entitled “Doyle’s Operaperta” from my upcoming book, “Yes, and Even More.”
Humor, insights, and history in 28 parts. You can read it on-line at:
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Okay, here’s another unabashed essay on doyletics in the vesture of a book review. This is a fine book by a Professor of Neurology who is struggling to understand many of the things that are made clear and simple by the nascent science of doyletics. Here’s a quote from the book:
[page 179] The critical formative set of stimuli to somatic pairings is, no doubt, acquired in childhood and adolescence.
In that sentence, he is saying, in effect, that doyles can be stored well up into adolescence. The body of evidence we have accumulated in doyletics provides empirical evidence that no doyles are stored past the age of about five. But he gets many things right and those interested in the neurological underpinnings of doyletics would do well to read the book.
Steiner clearly states that his aim of his essay is to remedy a lack in Kant’s philosophy:
[page 11] The aim of the following inquiry is to remedy the lack described above. Unlike Kant, the purpose here is not to show what our faculty of knowledge cannot do, but rather to show what it is really able to achieve.
He engages Kant in a philosophical arm-wrestling bout, and the Reader is left to judge who wins hands down. If you have a known allergy to epistemology, you are excused from reading this review; if, on the other hand, you don’t know a thing about episte. . . what? – by all means read it.
Are the names Giordano Bruno, Paracelsus, Nicolas of Cusa, Jacob Boehme, Angelus Silesius, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Valentine Wiegel unknown to you? Want to keep it that way? Don’t read the review of this book. In these Michaelmas lectures from 1900 Rudolf Steiner gives a splendid synopsis of the works of these Renaissance men and how what they did is so important to us today. He tells us, “I hope to have shown in my work that one can be a faithful follower of the scientific philosophy and still seek out the paths to the soul into which mysticism, properly understood, leads.” Scientifically minded skeptics are duly warned to stay away from this review, without a doubt.
“Travels in a Stone Canoe” by Harvey Arden and Steve Wall
In this book the two authors of The Wisdomkeepers give us the story behind their travels across the country into the holy places of the native American tribes to interview their revered medicine men and healers.
May cause you to wonder where the sacred places of your tribe are.
This is an intriguing novel by the author of “Generation X” – who loves phrases that buzz of the younger generations like “all cities have gone random” or “dust in the wind” or “just another brick in the wall.” Matherne’s Rule #25 will come to mind when you read this novel, hopefully before it is made into a movie: “What is the power of an unanswered question?”
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Sing Loudly to the Tune of the old Beatles’s Song, “Yesterday”
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The system crashed so suddenly.
I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.
Now all my data's gone and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.
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