Category: Touchstone

  • Sufficient Reason. . .

    One of my favorite authors has been Susan Howatch.  When she left the United States,  she returned to England with her daughter.  She also was accepted at Oxford to study philosophy.  She learned from the old philosophers that the human mind as structured was unable to understand  nor grasp the concept of Reality as taught. …

  • When You Need To See A Skyline. . . .

    August 23, 2024. . . As an introduction for those new to my writing, you need to know that for me all time is simultaneous, it is all happening now.  It need not be your understanding, just an acknowledgment that it is this way for me.  It makes for easier understanding when your thoughts are…

  • We do it now because we know . . .

    To change history. . .a new path. . . I had been at sixes and sevens (so to speak).  I should explain that the idiom means things being in great doubt with me. The idiom is centuries old coming from (more nearly surmised) the English.  Since I married into an Anglo Saxon Protestant family,  I…

  • Immigrant. . . .

    Although it was my best of intentions I don’t know why it was not obvious to those who claimed they knew me.  But what they saw was some kind of favoritism but never the cost or the contract involved.  That it could not be believed was understandable.  But the next question should have been,  why…

  • Making A Money Cannot Touch Difference . . . .

      We have been overwhelmed with the breaking news of national and international consequence.  I leave those voices to reweave the news and now give thought to what we share in common when even sleep does not rescue us.  Our efforts  to make a difference seem embarrassing when the world needs a step -in by…

  • To Remember Is Our Liberation. . .

      I remember once or many times saying that I wish to pick up a book and understand what they were saying.  I wanted wisdom.  I wanted to understand.  I wanted there to be a difference about me that others could see and say she is different.  I am different.  Our words are the same…

  • An Affair Of The Heart. . .

      An Affair Of The Heart. . . If you are a front line worker, a miracle worker appearing first to cries of crises, and you are driving home at the end of the day, you begin to talk in the silence of your car.  You vent and cry with fatigue, with sadness, with curses…

  • The Invisible Challenge . . . .

        The Invisible Challenge . . .            I post today a subject close to my heart and mind that boundaries in thought  subject our young people in ways detrimental to their growth and honesty.  It comforts the adults to be sure but the relationship goes nowhere.          With Sunday’s go to church approaching,…

  • The Lesson In Strawberries. . . .

    5/31/24. . . There is always a someone in mind when I wish to repeat a post.   A reason because I want to shout to the world that here is a person of worth and high calibre that the rest of the world does not know as we who know and love her.  And…

  • The Teacher. . . . (The Socratic Departure). . . .

      The Teacher   (The Socratic Departure) I will drink this cup of gall, swallowing the bitterness setting fire to earth’s waste. But first I caress this chalice. Its depth mirrors my heart, shaking the foundations of my very own selves. Now splendid trepidation challenge the ultimatums by which the earth rocks. Challenge me, o gods,…