Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Maxims, Mottoes, Epitaphs, etc.

  • Overheard in the High Sierra

    "There are old mountaineers and there are bold mountaineeers.  But there are no old bold mountaineers."

  • Of E-Mail and Doing Nothing

    I do appreciate e-mail, and I consider it rude not to respond; but lack of time and energy in synergy with congenital inefficiency conspire to make it difficult for me to answer everything. I am also temperamentally disinclined to acquiesce in mindless American hyperkineticism, in accordance with the Italian saying: Dolce Far Niente Sweet To…