A Sunday Sermon…. (Not Really)
Just One Example Actually, we don’t do any sermonizing around here. I’ll leave that to others. We draw connections. And …
Tag Archives: books
The New… and the Old
“The new religion destroyed almost all trace of the old.”—Catherine Hills, The Anglo-Saxon Settlement of England, from The History and …
A Fragment of Biology
“History is a fragment of biology—the human moment in the pageantry of species.”—Will Durant, The Age of Louis XIV A …
Ambition?
Chatted with an old friend last night. He finished university, became an engineer, married, moved to Florida and raised two …
Let’s Make Our Own Bibles
“This experience, which happens over and over, only convinces me the more that ‘we’ create nothing, that ‘it’ is doing …
Tweet! Tweet!
Technology and what goes on here at the Omphalos Cafe do not always go hand in hand. In fact I …
Reflections From Outside the Circle…
“They are stuck with their metaphor and don’t realize it’s reference. They haven’t allowed the circle that surrounds them to …
A Great Leap Forward…. Possibly
“The last time I saw him I asked him if he still believed—as he had once written—‘that we are at …
A Confession
“In his characteristic Quixotic way he had predicted a sale of thirty million copies of his Don Quixote; the world …
School’s In!
“The intellect is characterized by a natural inability to comprehend life.”—Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution Had occasion to stroll a University …
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