Category Archives: The Human Condition
The idea of “garden” as a civilization’s founding metaphor would have been astonishing in the late 6th century BCE. It is no less so today.
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The idea is quite simple: you get a bunch of people together in one place where they sit quietly for a couple of hours reading books.
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If ever there was a time for starting a journal to record your own small part in all this, it is now.
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By Sheldon Greaves The national upheaval caused by the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin has dominated the headlines for the last few days, and rightly so. You can almost feel a qualitative difference in the anger, … Continue reading
There are moments when you can feel in your bones that everything is about to change. The ancient Greeks had a word for this particular, special moment: Kairos.
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Evangelicals hope that Donald Trump will help to usher in the … the end of the world. Apocalyptic expectations are running hot and growing hotter.
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By Sheldon Greaves I ran across an invigorating little piece in Salon recently titled, “Silicon Valley makes everything worse: Four industries that Big Tech has ruined.” by Kieth A. Spencer. It expands on the matter of “disruption”, which is one … Continue reading
By Sheldon Greaves The week before last I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Megan Prelinger, who with her partner Rick took their personal libraries that had grown too big to manage, and turned them into a DIY public library … Continue reading