Category: Gratitude
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I am happy to retract last year's Thanksgiving post, reproduced below, if not in plenary fashion, then substantially. Thanks to Donald J. Trump and his supporters, the mendacity-fueled forces of tyranny and totalitarianism have suffered a major setback. It is morning in America again. But our political enemies, bent on overturning our system of government,…
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A Salutary Spiritual Exercise for the Month of Gratitude
November is gratitude month around here. One way to start the day right is by finding five things to be grateful for. Example: I slept well. All household systems are fully operational. The cats are happy and healthy. And so is the wife. ("Happy wife, happy life.") Nature is regular and reliable: coffee goes down,…
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There is Much to be Thankful for this Season
Borrowed from Flood's blog. Tony laments that there was no space left for Tulsi and Vivek. But they are there in spirit. Now that is a picture of true diversity and true inclusion! Add Tulsi and Vivek and you have a veritable Rainbow Coalition. As for equity, it is pure bullshit, as wokester's use the…
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Happy Thanksgiving?
The last four horrible years make my annual Thanksgiving homily ring somewhat hollow, especially the penultimate line: And don't forget the country that allows you to live your own kind of life in your own kind of way and say and write whatever you think in peace and safety. This is no longer true. We are…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
The last three horrible years make my annual Thanksgiving homily ring somewhat hollow, especially the penultimate line: And don't forget the country that allows you to live your own kind of life in your own kind of way and say and write whatever you think in peace and safety. This is no longer true. We are…
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The Left’s Ingratitude
How ungrateful, and how wrong, to sneer at the very conditions of one's own existence, activity, and well-being! Nature and society, church and state, language and institutions, culture and mores, everything that one finds and was given, that one did not make, cannot make, and can improve only to a limited extent, and only with…
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In Praise of a Lowly Adjunct
The entry below was written on 18 May 2009 and posted the same day. I had meant to send it to Dr. Loretta Morris, Richard's widow, but couldn't find her e-mail address. The other day I discovered her obituary. So here is another case of too late again. …………………………………. The best undergraduate philosophy teacher I…
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Too Late Again!
Every once in while I will get the notion to send 'fan mail' to a philosopher whose work I am reading and for whose work I am grateful. But I am sometimes too late. The search for an e-mail address turns up an obituary. The last time this occurred was when I wanted to congratulate…
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On Books and Gratitude
Wherein I say something nice about Howlin' Wolff.
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Happy Thanksgiving
This annus horribilis of 2020 makes my annual Thanksgiving homily ring somewhat hollow, especially the penultimate line: And don't forget the country that allows you to live your own kind of life in your own kind of way and say and write whatever you think in peace and safety. Still and all, we still have…
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Grateful to Live in Arizona
I've lived in Hawaii, Santa Barbara, Boston, and the Midwest, not to mention other places in the USA and abroad: Salzburg, Austria, Freiburg, Germany, and Ankara, Turkey. No place beats Arizona, all things considered. That is a mighty subjective judgment, to be sure, but if a blogger cannot vent his subjectivity, who can? For one…