Jack Pribek

Everyone thinks their weather is THE weather.

Every place I’ve ever lived and most places I’ve visited experience quirky weather events and when they happen, somebody inevitably says “Welcome to (fill in the blank)”.

Today, Beka used the phrase “Dogwood Winter”. It’s a new one on me. A good fit though; yesterday, the dogwoods started showing their first blooms and today…

There’s a phrase that my digital native son uses; “lost media”. It’s daunting to think about all of the artwork; paintings, symphonies, books etc. that have disappeared in to the nothingness. Great works by unknowns.

How about the notion that every single performance by a virtuoso musician, that did not occur within the last 120 years or so, and hence wasn’t recorded, does not exist.

I have a theory that the finest thinkers alive right now are unknowns. Same with artists of all stripe. There is just so much stuff that goes under the radar. However, in this age, the media need not ever be lost.

It may be a thousand years until some random people stumble on to the greatest minds of your generation.

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true artand science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonderand stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

– Albert Einstein

Regardless of technology and science the mystical will always be.

Around twenty years ago, a Marxist friend accused me of “linear thinking”.

I am coming around to understanding what I think he meant…it takes me a while sometimes.

I think that a person can view history either as a linear progression or a series of cycles in which civilizations are formed, mature and decline and return to barbarism.

Thinking back, I was thinking linear. Not so much anymore.

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy?

– Isaiah 55:2