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A slender kid with a deep voice, I hadn’t seen or heard from him in almost six decades Our family pulled up stakes and moved the summer after my fifth grade. We had been in the house for ten years, the only home my siblings and I had known and the move was a bit of a . . . → Read More: Finding Tony Doughty Notes for August 3, 2009 The definition of a “stronghold” is a hilltop fortress, a bulwark against the dangers of the surrounding world. So the question is, how does what appears to be an ancient European fortress come to occupy . . . → Read More: The Stronghold “On the one hand, information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.” - – Stewart Brand, founder, Whole Earth . . . → Read More: When “Free” Isn’t… …especially in the case of healthcare and public schooling. Most large public school systems get public funds doled out to them based on attendance. In our area in suburban Chicago the schools get a specified amount per pupil per year. That’s why it is so important to school systems to have high attendance. When someone noticed . . . → Read More: You Get What You Pay For… The main role of adipose tissue or body fat is to store energy in the form of fat, although it also cushions and insulates the body. It is actually a type of loose connective tissue. Obesity or being overweight depends on the amount of body fat—specifically, adipose tissue — you are carrying around. Adipose tissue also . . . → Read More: Understanding Your Fat Notes for July 16, 2009 Milkweed and crown vetch in the Fox River Forest Preserve meadow July 16, 2009 Last April, after the snow had melted, we walked the meadow next to the boat landing in the Fox River Forest Preserve. It was a cold, blustery day and the dogs ran back and forth sniffing everything. We . . . → Read More: Milkweed & Monarchs Got worked up over the redesign of the Swarthmore College alumni calendar and despite having been kicked out after two years had the gall to post a diatribe on the class listserve: I think it is true that the calendar is a valuable tool and it is also true that some minds in the administration have gone . . . → Read More: Media Notes: Alumni calendars and newspapers When your nose is to the grindstone it is hard to see where you’ve come from and where you’re going. A look at the 30-year Dow Jones Industrial Average can provide some interesting perspective. When you first look at it you see a slow, steady climb from 1979 to 1995 and then a quick rise to . . . → Read More: A Little Economic Perspective In 1963, we brought back from our tour in Germany with the Army Signal Corps seeds we had gathered from the giant pines in the Black Forest region. We grew them in window boxes, hundreds of seedlings that we thought would become a forest on our land … but our dachshund puppies had other ideas. . . . → Read More: New Year’s Message |
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Order out of Chaos
The photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson understood that “a photograph could fix eternity in an instant,” capturing and recording a view of a slice of time. Selecting that view and choosing that slice of time became a creative act, plucking the particular instant out of the chaotic flow of life. He had, or developed, . . . → Read More: Order out of Chaos