Watch the Boys Run

Dudley and his buddy, Bertram. A mini flip book.

Engaged Reasonableness

"Adulthood, for Kant and for Neiman, “requires facing squarely the fact that you will never get the world you want, while refusing to talk yourself out of wanting it.” It is a state of neither easy cynicism nor naïve idealism, but of engaged reasonableness."

A.O. Scott, New York Times Sunday Book Review (June 15, 2015) of Susan Neiman's Why Grow Up? Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 2015.

I think this is where I have been stuck these past couple of months, facing the reality of my world and trying to figure out how to engage reasonably with it. Ah, the imminent arrival of a certain birthday...

Much better to just add a few photos of beautiful dogs instead of ruminating on philosophical questions that have been pestering us for at least 300 or 400 years.

DPNs--The Scourge of the World

DPN's--I hate them. They slide. They slide out. They misbehave. They are a curse.

Melted Snowdrops

Melted snowdrops on the Nandina sp. yesterday. The leaves turn red when freezing temperatures arrive.

Happy New Year 2015!

Sunday Dinner

Organic turkey, roasted root vegetable salad, stuffing, and the crescent rolls I cannot eat turkey without. Desert not pictured: chocolate silk pie. Wine: Middle Sister moscato.

O Tannenbaum

2014 version, better late than never.