Uncategorized
-
Because I’m on the eastern shore, I can only see the full moon over the water by getting up at 3 or 4am. Or staying up that late, of course. This is about as close as I get—probably thirty or forty minutes after sunrise. If you don’t really know what you’re doing and you don’t…
-
This is a guest post by Janet Cupo. If you find the meaning unclear, it will help to read Flannery O’Connor’s short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” My drive to work is almost always beautiful, but this morning it was particularly so because of my awareness of the moon hovering in front…
-
We have these green frogs all over the place where I live. This little fellow somehow found his way into the house a few days ago and was hopping weakly across the tile floor in the kitchen, which must have seemed like an endless expanse of stony desert to him (or her). I picked him…
-
From the album Strange Weirdos, “Doin&rsquo the Math,” a suggestion about counting the years: Doin’ the math don’t bring satisfactionNo more addition nowIt’s all subtraction Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
-
I hope you got to see it tonight. Or last night, if it's already morning where you are, or you're reading this some hours from now (I'm writing around 11pm, US Central Time). It's an absolutely beautiful night here, and I've been sitting by the moonlit water drinking bourbon. The temperature is pretty much perfect,…
-
Those Mysterious Atheists (Reading the first draft of this, I noticed that I had been obliged to qualify the words “atheist” and “atheism” several times, so I decided it would make things simpler if I explained myself in the beginning: when I use the word “atheist” below, I don’t mean the casually atheistic and areligious…
-
The first Scarlatti I ever heard was a collection played on the harpsichord by Wanda Landowska. And for a long time I didn’t want to hear his music played any other way. The truth is that I have never really loved the sound of the piano, in spite of all the great music that’s been…
-
Pink Floyd: “Grantchester Meadows.” The funny thing about nostalgia is that you can have it for places and times that you didn’t actually experience. That was the way I felt when I first heard this ca. 1969. Then, hearing it again years later, I had that same feeling, plus the memory of the pleasure of…
-
I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a pretty depressing week. In an attempt to escape I’m indulging myself in a bit of sentimental nostalgia, which I here share with you. It’s a little over two minutes long. Don’t adjust the volume until you’ve gotten past the screaming girls at the beginning. The album…
-
I think I mentioned a few days ago that I had come across a very interesting essay bringing together the central insights of these two men, Polanyi’s “tacit knowledge” and Newman’s “illative sense.” At the time I hadn’t finished the essay, but now that I have I recommend it very strongly. I haven't read any…
Light On Dark Water 