Author Archives: rdavies

The snow had started falling again as I walked with my limping horse on the road. Given the cars sliding past us, I decided we’d do better on the sidewalk where others were walking, just to be on higher ground … Continue reading →

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination.” (Keats’ death-mask)

The two-note chickadee song.

“Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathom’d caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

“With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs” –James Thurber (a rather good documentary on an eccentric American wit-cartoonist)

The connection process. It is that which makes observing my 18-month-young grandson’s journey so interesting. There was one day a couple of months ago that epitomizes that. It was a windy day outside, trees moving outside. He was sitting on … Continue reading →

(line from a dream last night) “Life is a bit of a gamble.” ………………………………… Well, there you go. The proverbial roll of the dice especially in personal choices and decisions. We do make (up) our own lives as we go. … Continue reading →

Much of our early life consists of following our personal interests, exploring our ruling passions, and seeking the daily information we require as we go. In this, frequently is a desire to control as much of our lives as possible … Continue reading →

(Edison’s phonograph for playing recorded music was one of the 40 most useful, indispensable, beneficial technologies) Medicine -birth control -autopsies -cancer radiation -artificial insulin -penicillin and antibiotics -vaccines -aspirin -Prozac -artificial heart and other organs -syringes -band-aids and bandages Communications … Continue reading →

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops–a neverending black hole into which the hoi-polloi regularly pours money into. The planned obsolescence and the mass’s common denominator desires to own the absolutely latest gadgets, pointed out by Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman in … Continue reading →