How does it feel to think?
Like making a picture of the facts.
How do we think of feelings?
By making pictures of the act.
How a thought
feels is
the image—
how feelings
become thoughts.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Inquiring minds,
governed hearts.
How people
imagine things.
Monday, April 23, 2018
How does the soul work?
It abides in the body.
To see
what the facts are
imagine
who the acts become
in deed.
Reason tends
to the stillness
of the mind.
Passion stirs
in the motion
of the heart.
Saturday, April 21, 2018
In an argument
your reasons
shine.
Under an obligation
your passions
bind.
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Reason is
to argument
as passion
to obligation,
as that
which shines
to that
which binds.
Friday, April 13, 2018
"Literature is news that STAYS news." (Ezra Pound)
Journalism is literature that FAILS daily.
Friday, April 06, 2018
Schooling is to knowledge as banking to money. There are good arguments for public and private systems, i.e., for organizing them as utilities or companies. Even both. It's the public-private so-called "partnerships" that should frighten us. They reek of moral hazard.
