The term WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) came into common use when computer screens became capable of putting letters and words on the screen that would look the way a page printed from them looked. At this point, of course, you have to be pretty old to remember what things were like in the “old days,” before WYSIWYG […]
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Posted December 31, 2019 in Monthly News People have been marking—and often celebrating—the passing of time for all of recorded history. As the most easily observable markers of time, days and seasons, were the first to be recorded. It won’t surprise anyone that people living in places with readily observable seasonal changes were the first to use calendars to track the passing […] Posted February 28, 2019 in Monthly News The expression, “May you live in interesting times,” has been considered an ancient Chinese curse since Robert Kennedy popularized the saying. What makes times interesting? In general, conflict and anxiety. Most of us are familiar with the Biblical warning about wars and rumors of wars, and very few of us have had the luxury of […] Posted September 30, 2018 in Uncategorized “He not busy being born is busy dying” is a line from Bob Dylan’s song, It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding). The cycle of life from birth to death has, in one way or another, been a major subject of literature in all forms. At some point (and perhaps that should be “points”) in life, […] Posted July 31, 2017 in Monthly News If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. ~ Wayne Dyer In an 1819 letter to his brother and sister, the poet John Keats said the common notion that life is “a vale of tears … from which we are to be redeemed by a certain arbitrary […] Posted October 31, 2016 in Monthly News Change doesn’t have to be destructive to be productively disruptive. ~ Alva Noë I share some devout values with Alva Noë, author of Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015). One of those values we share is art. I have said there is a reason ART is in the […] Posted October 31, 2016 in Monthly News May you live in interesting times is often said to be an “ancient Chinese curse.” It is, however, neither Chinese nor ancient. Regardless of its origins, it is easy to see why living in interesting times would be considered a curse. What makes “times” interesting? The answer, of course, is change. If you can […] |
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