Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


Vaccines

Nothing can convince them to get the shot. The most important article you can read this week is this: “Our constitutional crisis is already here”: https://wapo.st/3zQXgtI It’s no longer behind a paywall, but it wasn’t really written for non-subscribers. In this essay neoconservative Robert Kagan tells us to be afraid, very afraid. That the train […]

The Path

Don’t let people tell you what to do. There will come a time in your life where your significant other, maybe even someone you respect, will burn out on your vision, which may be faltering to boot, you must not do it their way to salve their anxiety, you must do it your way, otherwise […]

Mailbag

From: Chris Kimsey Subject: Re: Wild World Hi Bob ,What a joy to read your blog about Cat Stevens and Mona Bone Jackon . I was the assistant engineer on the album . It was recorded at Olympic Studio 2, with Paul Samwell-Smith producing and George Chkiantz engineering. That album and those songs shaped my […]

Muhammad Ali

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/muhammad-ali/ Are you watching this? You’ve got to. Even though I wasn’t going to. I came home from hiking on Sunday night and Felice said she’d watched the first episode. I had no interest, I lived through it, I knew enough about Muhammad Ali. And there’d been so many other movies and documentaries, what else […]