Scene 3, Act 2:

sales rep backs out of office, clutching papers with numbers all over them. 

“I’ll be right back.  I’ll have to talk to the manager.  You know we are going to lose money on this deal.”

rep goes into another part of building.  customer cannot overhear conversation, which actually goes as [...]

i have come to be a great believer in the virtue of walking as a spiritual discipline for those of us who live in cities and towns and such places.  I don’t mean the sort of intense power-walking of physical fitness types.  I mean the casual walking through neighbourhoods, across streets, past and then into [...]

I recall being in the midst of an uncomfortable conversation between a student and a faculty member some time ago.  The student was complaining about something, the exact nature of which I have forgotten, but it involved something about the “equality of opinion”.

The faculty member replied that the student did not yet realize that [...]

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or at least rest in the lethargy of Limbo, if Dante is correct.

According to one system of reckoning, today is the anniversary of Aristotle’s death in 322 BC.

“All men by nature desire to know”.

I found this an interesting mix:  footage of the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) with Dire Straights’ “Brothers in Arms”.  Powerful, provocative, or propaganda?

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you’ll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And [...]

The last time Trevor and I had a long evening together was just before he headed out. 

He would come up from Vancouver for training exercises.  When he had some free time, we would have him over to our place, have some food and wine and good conversation, and occasionally he would crash at [...]