Month: April 2025
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Uhmm
Now that my summer leaves are falling, I suppose it’s not surprising that I have renewed my interest in the words that have remained faithful to my denuding branches -not just words, though: conversational words; words that used to drip like water from the leaky faucet of my mouth -on command, or not… Sometimes though,…
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Call me a fool; trust not my reading nor my observations
Lately -well, since I retired anyway- I’ve been noticing that I’m not retaining as much when I read; I find that I often have to re-read a paragraph to make sense of it: sometimes, the tense seems incorrect, sometimes a name I’ve just read escapes me; and occasionally I skip parts of sentences like words,…
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I have that within which passes show.
I suppose I have known all along that there were rules. Each time I engage in conversation with others there are hidden conventions at play: modes of conduct, standards for engagement, topics that are avoided, words that are inappropriate under certain circumstances, and yet welcomed in others. I have to decide which rules to follow,…
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In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god
Is Philosophy gendered? I don’t mean in terms of the number of men who, until very recently, considered themselves the only able arbiters of the discipline. And I’m not sure I could even comment on whether being married could make a difference in the field one way or another. And yet… I was an obstetrician…