'Like messengers rising from the depths, they propelled themselves through the water effortlessly.' Many years ago I asked my father after I heard him play the Dvorak cello concerto if he ever got bored playing the same composition so often. “No,” he said, “because every time I play it, I learn something [...]
Snow again! Shoveling driveways, digging out cars, power outages, the misery of winter. But then there’s the other side: the magic of nature. Small flakes at first, then big ones floating in air, blown here and there like cotton in a breeze, fluffy as freshly washed hair of a young woman; beautiful. And quiet, [...]
I’m getting into blogging. Now I view almost everything I encounter as a potential blog that can be developed if I choose to do so. It takes an effort to focus on what to say, to play with ideas, to take a side trip in creativity. But if I don’t seize the opportunity, it slips away. [...]
Sailor Circus – Sarasota, Florida A few years ago I wrote an essay – Cracks – my first blog, which considers time the interval between experiences left dangling to squeeze in more experiences: time as space, a medium for things to happen, stillness as well as movement, nothing as well as something. I was [...]
At first these essays comprised various topics of interest to me – for example, the nature of collecting and the power of “cracks” of time. Science has morphed into history for me after some fifty years of research. I have closed my laboratory at NIH and stepped aside to become what is, kindly, [...]
Oops, sorry. My grocery cart – the push-along container for food that old guys use as a walker – was blocking the way. They should have traffic rules and lanes in here! Can’t you move? says the white-haired lady, sixtyish, rushing. She gives me the evil eye. I smile. Sure, sorry. Wham, I hit a [...]
