It’s for these moments…
Some people think I miss the world by viewing it through my camera lens. I disagree. Rather, through my lens I become very intimate with the world. And I capture wonderful moments as in the photo below. See also, Narrowboat in the Spring
A Punny Ode to Jason. *Groaner-warning.*
If you are averse to puns, I warn you: TURN BACK NOW! Still reading? All right then. So, who's Jason? Only one of the niftiest, most intelligent and decent people I know. Jason and I enjoyed philosophy homework parties at my house every Friday night for nearly seven years. And notwithstanding that our homework days…
Just a thought. 8.
'Tis not solely in poetry and music, we must follow our taste and sentiment, but likewise in philosophy. -- David Hume. Ed. Ernest C. Mossner. A Treatise of Human Nature. Penguin Classics: New York. 1985 (First published 1739 and 1740). p 153 See also: Aristotle. We are sensing things. Series 1.1.
A David Hume Quote worth contemplating. A balanced life.
"Man is a reasonable being; and as such, receives from science his proper food and nourishment: But so narrow are the bounds of human understanding, that little satisfaction can be hoped for in this particular, either from the extent or security of his acquisitions. Man is a sociable, no less than a reasonable being: But…
Narrowboat in the Spring
I took these photos whilst pointing my lens out the window of a narrowboat on an English canal, first one way and then the other. (You can see the change in direction of the wake.) We’d travelled a short distance between shots, but even so the difference in colour from one direction to the other…
Some grey morning.
But for the use of the zoom lens, I've made no adjustments to this photo. Some mornings just are this grey. Dull, heavy, wet. I'd have missed this remarkable view had I let these things deter me from a walk. Some grey morning.
Coup D'état. Which is mightier, feather or stone? Or Poop?
Philosophy is…
... a knee-jerk reaction clinic.
