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On Judging Facts. Three Quotes Worth Comparing: Hobbes, Mill, Lippmann.
“And as in arithmetic, unpracticed men must, and professors themselves may often err and cast up false, so also in any other subject of reasoning, the ablest, most attentive, and most practised men may deceive themselves and infer false conclusions, not but that reason itself is always right reason, as well as arithmetic is a Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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On aging.
Like this knocker, my hands have given so many years of service. They’ve been tireless and strong, standing up to water, heat, and cold. And, like this knocker, they’ve been taken by the hands of others. Continue reading
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Hello Dragonfly — poem
Hello dragonfly,where are you going,going in such a hurry?I’d like you to stopso I can pick your prehistoric mind,for the secrets you’ve kept through the ages,and the truth I’m trying to find.Hello dragonfly,what do you seewith your multi-prismed eyes?I’d like to borrow themfor another point of view,the many lives so different from my ownand the Continue reading
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